(PHOTOGRAPHY) BATTEY CORNELIUS Even Tide When dusky twilight

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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) BATTEY, CORNELIUS. "Even-Tide. When dusky twilight begins to gather 'round me." Silver print photograph 9 x 6-3/4 inches (image size printed on a slightly larger piece of paper; with Battey's blind stamp of the photographic division of Tuskegee Institute at the lower right corner; with typed paper description attached to the reverse. Tuskegee, Ala., circa 1916-1918

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A touching scene of an elderly black lady, possibly an ex-slave, seated in the doorway to her cabin, a corncob pipe in her mouth; her sewing at her feet. Cornelius Marion Battey was the resident photographer at Tuskegee from 1916 to his death in 1927.