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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

Thompson, Mary Louise

Description

The Kenneth Wiggins Porter Photograph Collection consists of portraits, field research photographs and photographic reproductions compiled by Porter for his research on Black Seminoles, including the Seminole Negro Indian Scouts, that he conducted during the 1940s to the 1970s. Some of these images appear in his book

From Collection

Kenneth Porter Photograph Collection.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Military Scouts
  3. Military Service

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