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Photos - Zora Neale Hurston, the WPA in Florida, and the Cross City Turpentine Camps

Gabriel Brown playing guitar as Rochelle French and Zora Neale Hurston listen: Eatonville, Florida (1935)

Zora Neale Hurston began working for the Work Projects Administration in Florida in May of 1938.

In August of 1939, Hurston went to Cross City, Florida to interview workers of the Aycock and Lindsay turpentine camp.

(Federal Writers' Project staff photographer Robert Cook accompanied the team to Cross City, but those photographs were lost before they could be preserved by the Library of Congress. These photographs of the turpentine camps are from the collections of the State Archives of Florida.)
 
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Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston : Eatonville, Florida
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Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston : Eatonville, Florida

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Hungerford Normal and Industrial School, J.H. Alfred Cluett Hall
 
                 
 
Sawmill of the Robert Hungerford Normal and Industrial School
 
View of the Robert Hungerford Normal and Industrial School campus
 
Palms at Robert Hungerford Normal and Industrial School
 
Robert Hungerford Normal and Industrial School, Booker T. Washington Hall
 
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Shipping rosin, cotton and turpentine, the property of Union citizens, from New Fernandina, Florida, for New York
 
Chipping the pine tree and dipping gum on a turpentine farm
 
Dipping turpentine
 
Hacking turpentine
 
                 
 
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