Photographs, ca. 1930-ca. 1965.

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Photographs, ca. 1930-ca. 1965.

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Contains black and white negatives made by Draffus Lamar Hightower and taken in and around Barbour County, Alabama. Subjects include weddings, funerals, events, buildings, landscapes, various individuals and small groups, as well as numerous images of churches and of Hightower's surrogate daughters Martha and Mary Jane Bird. Of particular interest are the images he took of a George C. Wallace campaign rally in 1958, and of both black and white men leaving for service during World War II.

ca. 5,000 items.

University of South Alabama, Marx Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7492048

University of South Alabama, Marx Library

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