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Zora Neale Hurston, the WPA in Florida and the Cross City Turpentine Camps
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Title : Gabriel Brown playing guitar as Rochelle French and Zora Neale Hurston listen: Eatonville, Florida
Series : Reference collection
Image Number : Rc02554
Date : Photographed in June 1935.
Notes :

L to R: Hurston, French, Brown.

Hurston worked for the WPA, collecting folklife and folklore from Floridians throughout the state. She is pictured here collecting music from French and Brown.

Photograph was part of a 1985 traveling exhibit called "Pursuits and Pastimes". Reproducted from the collection of the Library of Congress. Forms part of series S1606, Florida Folklife Archive, Photographs and Slides of Folk Arts, Artisans, and Performers.

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