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Thomas E. Askew

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Thomas E. Askew (c. 1847 – July 12, 1914) was an African American photographer based in Atlanta, Georgia. He was among the earliest Black professional photographers in Atlanta, and is best known as a principal contributor to W. E. B. Du Bois's Exhibit of American Negroes at the 1900 Paris Exposition.

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