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Twenty Photographs of Gees Bend, Alabama
Gees Bend, Alabama photographs were taken from FSA/OWI
Black and White Photographs, 1935-1945.
For a larger image, click on the picture. Click on the
caption to see the catalog record.
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Old
Cable ferry between Camden and Gees Bend, Alabama
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Project
manager's truck coming across on ferry from Camden to Gees Bend,
Alabama
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Cabins
and outbuildings on the former Pettway plantation
Gees Bend, Alabama
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Former
home of the Pettways, now inhabited by Negroes
Gees Bend, Alabama
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Conducting
school in the church
Gees Bend, Alabama.
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"Old
man Mosely," now blind, just sits by the house
Gees Bend, Alabama
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Willie
S. Pettway, Descendant of former slave of the Pettways
Gees Bend, Alabama
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N.R.A.
and Lindbergh Pettway, sons of Nolan Pettway
Gees Bend, Alabama
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Fertilizer
for Nolan Pettway
Gees Bend, Alabama
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Plowing
at Gees Bend
Wilcox County, Alabama
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Working
in school garden,
Gees Bend, Alabama
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A
washline, instead of hanging the clothes on a fence or the bushes,
in Nolan Pettway's backyard,
Gees Bend, Alabama.
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Aunt
Nellie Pettway, carrying wood from yard for fireplace
Gees Bend, Alabama
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Carrying
water
Gees Bend, Alabama
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Curing
meat
Gees Bend, Alabama
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Outside
the cooperative store on Saturday morning
Gees Bend, Alabama.
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Jorena
Pettway and her daughter making chaircover out of bleached flour
sacks and flower decorations from paper
Gees Bend, Alabama
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Jorena
Pettway with some of the Livestock
Gees Bend, Alabama
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Aunt
Sally, old midwife, the only doctor or nurse ever heard of in
Gees Bend before project was started
Gees Bend, Alabama
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School
is out
Gees Bend, Alabama
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