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1913. "Widder Vaught's family, Arkansas." 8x10 inch glass negative by Joseph Kossuth Dixon for department store magnate Rodman Wanamaker's "Expedition of Citizenship to the American Indian." View full size.
Perhaps Rodman Wanamaker talked to this family about their heritage. They all got together to take this picture, knowing that it was an American Indian Exposition.
"Widder" is a slang for Widow. Mrs Vaught got her family together and it looks like her Sons and Grandkids came over for the shoot.
Cherokee, for sure.....and a lot of other tribes inhabited this region.
There has to be a reason this picture was taken for posterity.
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