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John Robert Drake
1989 Portrait of John Robert Drake, 108 years, of Manteo, North Carolina with his five-year-old great-grandson, Tshombe L. Selby, also of Manteo.

They pose in Drake's home beneath a wall of photographs of Drake’s family and descendants.
Tshombe Selby grew up and became a world-famous opera singer with regular performances at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
He returns each year to Manteo to treat his hometown to a free concert at the Pea Island Cookhouse Museum for their annual Juneteenth Celebration.
Source: Outer Banks History Center-North Carolina- AV.5137.1215 John Robert Drake & great-grandson, Tshombe L. Selby, 1989, Drew Wilson Photographs, OBHC
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