On All Saints' Day at New Roads, Louisiana Negroes assembeled in the church for preliminary ceremonies and then marched en masse to the cemetery for ceremonies there. Part of the group is shown entering the cemetery

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Title
On All Saints' Day at New Roads, Louisiana Negroes assembeled in the church for preliminary ceremonies and then marched en masse to the cemetery for ceremonies there. Part of the group is shown entering the cemetery
Names
United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986 (Photographer)
Collection

Farm Security Administration Photographs

Lee, Russell

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1938-11
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 011884-M3 c.2
Topics
Louisiana -- New Roads
Louisiana -- Pointe Coupee Parish
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Title and date from Library of Congress.
Content: FSA Collection contains two copies of this photograph.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: Print Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
TMS ID: 60012
TMS Object Number: 011884-M3 c.2
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 23edfdb0-c4f9-0136-a667-0afd28768de5
Rights Statement
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "On All Saints' Day at New Roads, Louisiana Negroes assembeled in the church for preliminary ceremonies and then marched en masse to the cemetery for ceremonies there. Part of the group is shown entering the cemetery" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1938. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4582bb60-c4fc-0136-4d25-5b9df328f7cf

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "On All Saints' Day at New Roads, Louisiana Negroes assembeled in the church for preliminary ceremonies and then marched en masse to the cemetery for ceremonies there. Part of the group is shown entering the cemetery" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 26, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4582bb60-c4fc-0136-4d25-5b9df328f7cf

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1938). On All Saints' Day at New Roads, Louisiana Negroes assembeled in the church for preliminary ceremonies and then marched en masse to the cemetery for ceremonies there. Part of the group is shown entering the cemetery Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4582bb60-c4fc-0136-4d25-5b9df328f7cf

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On All Saints' Day at New Roads, Louisiana Negroes assembeled in the church for preliminary ceremonies and then marched en masse to the cemetery for ceremonies there. Part of the group is shown entering the cemetery