William "Tank" Coward, North Carolina

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A color digital photograph of William "Tank" Coward at the entrance of Roses in the Jackson Plaza of Sylva, North Carolina. Coward appears in silhouetted profile carrying a plastic bag in his proper right hand and another object in his proper left hand. He is wearing a hat. Behind him, through the glass window between the store’s entrance and exit doors, are the stripes of a hanging American flag. In the far background is a parking lot with a sign [JACKSON / PLAZA] at left.

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