Address book made from a deck of cards by Herman Wallace while incarcerated

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A deck of red paper playing cards repurposed into an address book by Herman Wallace while incarcerated at Angola Prison. The cards have been cut in half and housed in a cream-colored hand-stitched paper pouch. Each card has handwritten information for one of Wallace's contacts. The outermost card on one side has an inscription “Fam” in blue ink.

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