African American craft makers: Katy Gregory and daughter, Ethel Lois Jackson, Mary Ellen Bowens, Lee Ora Crowder, and Elwillie Baylark, Chicago, Illinois

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Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-2, interior of Mrs. Katy Gregory's home, 335 W. 114th, Chicago; 3-7, Mrs. Ethel Lois Jackson, left; Beverly Robinson, fieldworker, right; 8, Mrs. Gregory, left; Mrs. Jackson, right; 9-10, l-r, Mrs. Gregory, Mrs. Jackson, Beverly Robinson; 11-12, Mrs. Mary Ellen Bowens - she made pillows on back of sofa; 13, Mrs. Bowens, left; Mrs. Lee Ora Crowder, right; 14-23, Mrs. Bowens displaying quilts; Beverly Robinson at right; 24-25, Mrs. Bowens' pillows; 26, sofa upholstery; 27-28 ,Mrs. Lee Ora Crowder, jewelry maker; 28a, wall decoration; 29-36, Mrs. Elwillie Baylark, showing cape she crocheted, 6401 S. Yale, Chicago

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01/01/1977

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