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A young black woman in Louisiana looks out her window to two children and their grandmother

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Is part of the Clifton Johnson Photograph CollectionPublished opposite page 49 in Highways and Byways of the Mississippi Valley, by Clifton Johnson.Caption on back: "These two children are with their granny who is smoking her pipe. The girl looking out from the window is the belle of Shacktown. Wooden blocks have been put under the house for it to stand on. Such foundations are common in the far south."
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