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Joerina Pettway and her daughter making chair covers out of bleached flour sacks
Marion Post Wolcott1939
Souls Grown Deep
Atlanta, United States
A Marion Post Wolcott photograph from 1939 features Joerina Pettway (c. 1881 - 1945) and her daughter Jennie (1900 - 1990) stitching chair covers on the porch of their Roosevelt house. Joerina also made the chairs and practically all the furniture in the house.
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- Title: Joerina Pettway and her daughter making chair covers out of bleached flour sacks
- Creator: Marion Post Wolcott
- Creator Lifespan: 1910/1990
- Date Created: 1939
- Location: Gee's Bend, Alabama
- Location Created: Gee's Bend, Alabama
- Subject Keywords: Gee's Bend, Black artist, African American artist
- Rights: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
- External Link: https://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/artist/joerina-pettway, https://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/artist/jennie-pettway
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