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A detail of the family parlor highlights images taken of the woodwork created by cabinetmaker Thomas Day in North Carolina. The photographs were taken as part of the WPA project. Day was a free black American furniture designer and cabinetmaker in Caswell County, N.C. working in the first half of the 19th century.

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Student Designers’ Works on Display at Woodlawn

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