A prison coop

A prison coop

Tennessee
Women -- Tennessee
Boys -- Tennessee
Chickens -- Tennessee

A white woman stands near a chicken coop holding its door open and holding a chicken in her left hand. A boy stands next to her looking at the chicken. Caption: "A prison coop for the sitting hen that the girl is carrying under her arm. The boy looks as if he had outgrown both his cap and his overalls."

Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940

Image from opposite page 86 of Highways and Byways of the Mississippi Valley by Clifton Johnson, 1906

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From the Clifton Johnson Collection

Photographs

CJ3151

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