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"The Whittler," an old Negro man (ex-slave) Camden, Alabama

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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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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. African American
  2. African Americans
  3. Alabama
  4. Camden
  5. Craft
  6. Crafts
  7. Elderly
  8. Ethnic
  9. Ethnicity
  10. Farm Security Administration
  11. Figure Male
  12. Figure(S) In Exterior
  13. Landscape
  14. Landscapes
  15. New Deal
  16. New Deal, 1933 1939
  17. Older People
  18. Recreation
  19. Whittling
  20. Wolcott, Marion Post

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