Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/24

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Subject: [Leica] OT: IMGs: Babes in Blackface (kids, that is), 1939
From: profmason at yahoo.com (John Edwin Mason)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:23:31 -0800 (PST)

About a week ago, I was rummaging through the Farm Security Administration 
online archive (at the Library of Congress) and came across an eerie Marion 
Post Wolcott photo of a group of white schoolkids in blackface makeup, 
preparing for a school festival.

Not surprisingly, that got me rummaging some more.  Turns out that there is 
quite a bit of blackface in the archive.

And that got me to thinking.

Here's the result:

http://johnedwinmason.typepad.com/john_edwin_mason_photogra/2010/02/fsa-blackface-minstrels.html

http://bit.ly/9aD0DO

--John

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John Edwin Mason, Photography:
http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com
Charlottesville and Cape Town