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  2. Shelby Lee Adams - Wikipedia

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    Adams has photographed Appalachian families since the mid-1970s. [2] He had first encountered the poor families of the Appalachian Mountains as a child, travelling around the area with his uncle, who was a doctor. [3] His work has been published in three monographs: Appalachian Portraits (1993), Appalachian Legacy (1998), and Appalachian Lives ...

  3. Stacy Kranitz - Wikipedia

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    Stacy Kranitz (born 7 March 1976) is an American photographer who works in the documentary tradition and lives in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee. [1] [2] [3] She has made long-term personal projects about the Appalachian region and worked as an assignment photographer for magazines and newspapers.

  4. Eliot Wigginton - Wikipedia

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    The series comprised essays and articles by high school students from Rabun County, Georgia focusing on Appalachian culture. In 1987, Wigginton was named "Georgia Teacher of the Year," [1] and in 1989, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. [2] In 1992, Wigginton confessed to and was convicted of child molestation. [3]

  5. Harris County, Texas jails - Wikipedia

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    As of 2024 the Harris County jail facilities together have a capacity for 9,575 inmates; at time they have held over 12,000. Due to a state-mandated staffing ratio, the HCSO had to ship inmates to other jails, including some in Louisiana; in June 2010 1,600 Harris County inmates were serving time at other jails. By January 2012 the Harris ...

  6. George Masa - Wikipedia

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    In 1918, he was hired by Asheville photographer Herbert Pelton where Masa continued his Kodak finishing business and “learned so many things [in] all branches of photography. [9] He left Pelton the following year, opening his own business, Plateau Studio, and began using George Masa as his professional name.

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  8. Arrendale State Prison - Wikipedia

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    In 2007, inmate fire squads responded to the wildfires in South Georgia, in addition to the hundreds of other alarms they received statewide. The older original part of the prison was built in 1911 as a tuberculosis sanitarium and operated till the mid-1950s when it was turned over to the Georgia Prison system.

  9. Jean Bell Thomas - Wikipedia

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    She was born Jeannette Bell in 1881 [1] to William George Bell and Catherine S. Bell, a retired engineer and a schoolteacher, respectively, in Ashland, Kentucky. [1] [2] She earned the nickname "Traipsin' Woman" when, as a teenager in the 1890s, she defied convention to attend business school, learn stenography, and become a court reporter, traveling by jolt wagon to courts in the mountains of ...