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Calhoun-McCormick Photographic Archive

CTL-E-0799 · Archive · collection · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The ~30-year film archive of photographers Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick documenting Black New Orleanians - evacuated in bins during Hurricane Katrina (2005); returned to waterlogged negatives; partial salvage followed.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-051; source research type(s): collection. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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