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Unidentified Portrait Of Woman, Either From NC or TN.

ca. 1897-1922,
Her portrait was one of several on a damaged contact sheet.
Photographer: Hugh Mangum- Glass plate.

This is an original glass plate print by Hugh Mangum, who was from North Carolina.
This print is in the book, "Where We Find Ourselves"
Edited by Margaret Sartor and Alex Harris-Foreword by Deborah Willis-Introduction by Michael Lesy.
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"In an era of racial terror, as Jim Crow tightened its grip on the South, Hugh Mangum set up makeshift studios across North Carolina and Virginia (sometimes just a tent outside of town) that were open to White and Black sitters alike, between 1897 and 1922. He died in 1922, from complications from the flu, at the age of 44."
- New Yorker article By Sarah Blackwood
February 14, 2019.

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