A pot hunter
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@ The Library Company of Philadelphia
Description
Portrait of the back of an African American man holding a gun in one hand, and a dead oposum in the other, as he climbs over a fence on a snow-covered landscape.; Title from lantern slide at Staten Island New York Historical Society.; Wood, a Philadelphia artist and traveller, turned to photography in the 1880s, exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at several national and international photography exhibitions. His photographs often won prizes.; Forms part of: George Bacon Wood Photograph Collection.
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The Library Company of Philadelphia
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