Cooking Stove in the home of Mrs. Cleola McFarland, near the Homochitto River in rural Wilkinson County, Mississippi

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This black and white photographic print depicts a cast iron stove in the corner of a room. The stove has four stove eyes on top, and a rectangular closed door on the front. The word "BEACON" appears across the top of the door in raised letters. There is ash scattered across the various stove surfaces. On top of the stove is a kettle, a coffee pot and a pie tin. On the floor in front of the stove is a metal bucket with the narrow handle of an implement emerging from the mouth of the bucket. There is a Roland Freeman stamp on the back.

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