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Photograph album containing 119 original silverprint photographs mounted to black paper leaves within. Each photograph is 3x2¼" or slightly smaller. Most are captained in ink on the photograph.

A wonderful family archive of original photographs of the family and friends of a young Black woman living in Atkinson, Alabama in 1928 (date and place from captions within). The young woman (several photographs captioned "Dear Me" and the like) appears to be in her late teens, early 20s. The photographs include "Mamma," "Fortune teller gypsy, Aunt Mollie," her girlfriends Magdalene Smith, Gertrude Byrde and Ruby Smith, several boys her age such as "Joe Godfrey," "Oh boy, E.L. Rayburn" (young man in military dress),  2 photographs of what appears to be a white man in a hat named Neil Johnson, labeled "Corn thief" in one photo and "The Jazz hound" in the other, and a few photographs of the "1928 May Day Fairies."