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[Gabriel Brown and Rochelle French, Eatonville, Florida] – Historic Print

[Gabriel Brown and Rochelle French, Eatonville, Florida] — historic photograph
[Gabriel Brown and Rochelle French, Eatonville, Florida]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Two guitarists, Gabriel Brown and Rochelle French, stand together in this June 1935 photograph taken in Eatonville, Florida. Incorporated in 1887, Eatonville is widely regarded as one of the first all-Black municipalities in the United States, and it was also the hometown of writer Zora Neale Hurston. The picture belongs to the Lomax collection of folk musician photographs, part of the Library of Congress's effort to document Southern vernacular music in the 1930s. Its focus on the instruments and the players offers a direct record of the guitar-based music performed in rural and small-town Black communities of that era.

Medium1 photographic print.
GenreFLA.; June 1935; 82-621." Forms part of: Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians
Notes1935 June.
SubjectsFrench, Rochelle. Brown, Gabriel. African Americans--Music--1930-1940. Musicians--1930-1940. Guitars--1930-1940.United States--Florida--Eatonville.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,111 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-108593

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