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Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter and Martha Promise Ledbetter

Black-and-white reproduction of Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter and his wife, Martha Promise Ledbetter, in 1935.

Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter and Martha Promise Ledbetter

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter and Martha Promise Ledbetter. Lomax, Alan (Photographer)

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Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Collection Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas.
Date 1935
Copyright Public Domain
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