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Photograph: Group Portrait, White Swan Lodge #121

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Thomas, R. Lee

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Image of two rows of men and women sitting and standing in a room. Two women in the front row, center are holding a banner. Banner: WHITE:SWAN LODGE #131 A.F. AND A. MASONS W.M. H.H. REED. SECY. M. SIMMONS B’HAM ALA. SEP.12:48. Date: 9/12/1948. 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/1092/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. Birmingham
  9. Eartha M.M. White Collection
  10. Freemasons. White Swan Lodge 121 (Birmingham, Ala.)
  11. History
  12. Mississippi
  13. Mound Bayou
  14. Photograph Collections
  15. Photographers, Black
  16. Photography
  17. Pictorial Works
  18. Race, Ethnicity And Post Colonial Studies
  19. Societies, Etc
  20. Thomas, R. Lee, (Photographer)
  21. White Swan Lodge #121 (Masonic Order : Birmingham, Ala.)

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