Flora Pledger and Lillie Hamlin standing in Five Row

Datecirca 1930

MediumPhotograph

Credit LineReynolda House Museum of American Art

CopyrightPublic Domain

Object number20-1107-01

DescriptionFlora Pledger and Lillie Hamlin, early residents of Five Row, stand outside the school. A volleyball net and an outhouse are visible in the background.

“The men took it for fun, to see which one could raise the biggest hogs. And you never seen such hogs in your life. Oh, we raised one 550 pounds. And lard! I had three cans about that big, full of lard.” – Flora Pledger

ProvenanceMaterial gathered for "Spirit of Reynolda: African American Contributions, 1912-1962" exhibition at Reynolda House Museum of American Art, 1993. Image identified and copy print gifted by Eugenia Parent.
Exhibition History1993
Spirit of Reynolda: African American Contributions, 1912-1962
Reynolda House Museum of American Art
Published ReferencesMayer, Barbara, Reynolda: A History of an American Country House (Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1997), page 45.

Millhouse, Barbara Babcock, Reynolda: 1906-1924 (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2011), page 116.

Status

Not on view

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