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Shinnecock, People of the Stony Shore Photo Project attempts to reinforce our connection to the land and aims to present ourselves in a web-based portraiture platform.
The Shinnecock Portrait Project is made possible with Special thanks to MDOC Storyteller’s Institute hosted at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, in June 2018.
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Laura Avis Williams Horton, 1920s
- Persons: Laura Avis Williams Horton
Collection: Rogers Memorial Library – Digital Collection https://myrml.zenfolio.com/p856759042/h38261330#hef5c3bc
Date: 1920
Type of Material: Photograph
Source: Unknown
Language: English
Coverage/Location: Yaphank, NY
Creator: Unknown
Copyright: No Known Copyright Restriction
Description:
Laura Avis Williams Horton, 1920’s.
She is standing in front of a 1939(?) mural of Paul Cuffee, Shinnecock Preacher by Robert G. Herbert – (Courtesy Jim “Zak” Szakmary).
Two WPA(Work Progress Administration) murals by Robert Gaston Herbert (1873 – 1954) were painted for what was originally the Suffolk Home in Yaphank, NY, and is now a Suffolk County office building. One mural is a historically accurate depiction of Rev. Paul Cuffee, an Indian preacher, preaching to colonists and Indians. Each measure roughly 10’x10′. 8
Robert Gaston Herbert was active/lived in Long Island, New York, and also lived in Ohio, where he was born. Robert Herbert is known for marine paintings, commercial art, wood carvings.
Photo colorized
