Dem Watermillion

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A cabinet card with a yellowish black-and-white photograph depicting a family eating watermelons outside a log structure. The mother is seated at the far left in the swept yard. She holds one quarter of a melon to her mouth in her right hand and another quarter in her left hand at her waist. The father is standing and leaning near a post by the porch of the building. The children are seated in the yard or standing and leaning against the building, with one older girl in the right foreground seated and partially obscured by a large wooden pestle and mortar. All but one of the children is holding a watermelon quarter near their mouth. The title is imprinted into the image with the words "DEM" and "WATERMELLION" on either side of the older girl in the right foreground.

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