Portrait of Otho Barnes

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A black and white photograph of Otho Barnes. Barnes is seated in a chair wearing long-sleeved shirt, pants, and suspenders. A folding chair is folded up behind the chair Barnes is sitting in. The photograph is mounted to a paper frame by plastic photo corners. [Mr. Otho Barnes / 1970 / Martha Olson] is handwritten in pencil on the interior frame below the photograph. On the back of the photograph ahandwritten inscription reads [Mr. Otho Barnes, 95 years old, Marion County, Columbia, MS 1970].

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