I’se Gwine to Tan Yo’r Hide

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A color half-tone print depicting a man and three children with a sliced watermelon on the ground. This stereo card consists of two identical side by side images. In the daytime, outside of a stone faced root cellar, a grey hatted man in a bright long sleeve shirt, dark vest and pants, stands bent over a boy with his proper right hand and leg near the child’s left ear. From left to right: a dark haired boy in a light blue shirt, looking up at the man behind him, holds a very large slice of black seeded watermelon in his lap. His legs are crossed at the ankles. Beside him, a boy with dark hair, wearing a bright long sleeve shirt, his head turned proper right to look at the man, sits with his arms on either side of a watermelon, sliced topside.

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