Drums and Shadows photograph collection, 1939.

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Drums and Shadows photograph collection, 1939.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79463337

The Drums and Shadows photograph collection consists of reprints of Malcolm Bell's photographs of African Americans living on the coast of Georgia including Possum Point and Pin Point, Chatham County; Sapelo Island, McIntosh County; St. Mary's, Camden County; St. Simons Island, Glynn County; and Sunbury, Liberty County, Georgia. The photographs were used in an exhibit mounted by the Schatten Gallery, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, February 1 - March 20, 1994. They are arranged in the Checklist of the Exhibition order. The number designation after each photograph's title corresponds to this list. Commentary on the exhibit as a whole, along with commentary for each portion of the exhibit, were written by Muriel Barrow Bell.

.75 linear ft. (2 OP boxes)

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Bell, Malcolm, 1913-2001

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Malcolm Bell Jr. (1913-2001), photographer, historian, and bank president, was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1913. In 1939, at the age of twenty-six, Bell and his wife, Muriel Barrow Bell, became involved with the Savannah Unit of the Georgia Writers' Project, a Works Progress Administration program, to interview and photograph coastal Georgia blacks who were of African descent. Under the leadership of Mary Granger, the Savannah Unit interviewed ca. one hundred thirty-four people in twenty locat...