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Photographs (9 items), including funeral scenes (c. 1880s), a wood carved memorial by George Rawlins (1883), and photographs of the lynching of John Holmes and Thomas Thurmond (1933), 1880 - 1933

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Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Michael McDowell Death Collection is comprised of 76 boxes, and spans the years 1616 – 2005.  The collection was assembled by McDowell based on his interest in the subject matter, and includes correspondence, photographs (including photographic prints, daguerreotypes, tintypes, ambrotypes, and stereographs), memorial cards, jewelry, hairwork, scrapbooks, ledgers, newsclippings, and artifacts.  In most cases the items in this collection were purchased by McDowell, or were given to him by...
Dates: 1880 - 1933