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A fireplace in an old mud hut which was built and is still lived in by a French-mulatto family, near the John Henry plantation. Melrose, Louisiana

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Gelatin Silver Print
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. John H. and Jann Arrington Wolcott
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Keywords

  1. Architecture
  2. Architecture Interior
  3. Detail
  4. Domestic
  5. Dwellings
  6. Ethnic
  7. Ethnicity
  8. Farm Security Administration
  9. Figure Male
  10. Fireplace
  11. Full Length
  12. Hut
  13. Landscape
  14. Landscapes
  15. Louisiana
  16. Melrose
  17. Mulatto
  18. New Deal
  19. New Deal, 1933 1939
  20. Wolcott, Marion Post

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