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[Photograph of three women]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09587.410 Author/Creator: Place Written: Roanoke, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: 21 August 1939 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w Height: 13.1 cm, Width: 8.5 cm Order a Copy

A photograph of three African American women. They are standing with their arms around each other in front of a house porch. Another woman stands on the porch, but her face is not visible. The woman on the left is identifiable from other photographs as Nannie Harvey. The woman in the middle wears a dark polka potted dress and glasses. The woman on the right wears a white dress.

Harvey, Nannie J. (fl.1914-1969)

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