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Jorena Pettway sorting peas inside her smokehouse. She still has many fruits and vegetables, which she canned last year, on the shelves around her. Gee's Bend, Alabama

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Jorena Pettway

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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. Architecture
  5. Container
  6. Containers
  7. Cooking
  8. Domestic
  9. Ethnic
  10. Ethnicity
  11. Farm
  12. Farm Security Administration
  13. Farms
  14. Foodstuff
  15. Gee's Bend
  16. Knee Length
  17. Landscape
  18. Landscapes
  19. New Deal
  20. New Deal, 1933 1939
  21. Object
  22. Occupation
  23. Occupations
  24. Other
  25. Pettway, Jorena
  26. Portrait Female
  27. Portraits
  28. Smokehouse
  29. Wolcott, Marion Post
  30. Women

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