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Photograph: Group Portrait, Tuxedo Lodge #431

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Thomas, R. Lee

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Image of three rows of men sitting and standing in a room. Men in the front holding a banner. Banner: TUXEDO LODGE 431(?) A.F. AND A. MASONS FAIRFIELD ALA W.M. A. DO(?)ELL AUG.12.48 . Date: 8/12/1948. One of 156 black and white photographs by R. Lee Thomas, an African American photographer active in the early twentieth century in the southern United States. Thomas’ work provides photographic documentation of southern black social life, primarily religious and labor groups, circa 1946-1949. The majority of the photographs depict groups from Birmingham, Alabama, and adjacent areas. His imprint contains the caption: Made by R. Lee Thomas, Mound Bayou, Mississippi, The Oldest Negro Town in America.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/rthomas/1122/thumbnail.jpg
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Keywords

  1. African American Freemasons
  2. African American Photographers
  3. African American Studies
  4. African Americans
  5. Alabama
  6. Ancient Free And Accepted Masons
  7. Arts And Humanities
  8. Eartha M.M. White Collection
  9. Fairfield
  10. Freemasons. Prince Hall Grand Lodge (Ala.)
  11. Freemasons. Tuxedo Lodge 431 (Fairfield, Ala.)
  12. History
  13. Mississippi
  14. Mound Bayou
  15. Photograph Collections
  16. Photographers, Black
  17. Photography
  18. Pictorial Works
  19. Race, Ethnicity And Post Colonial Studies
  20. Societies, Etc
  21. Thomas, R. Lee, (Photographer)
  22. Tuxedo Lodge 431 (Masonic Order : Fairfield, Ala.)

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