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Lily Richmond Sitting Outside
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Aunt Lily Richmond sang African American spirituals for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. Richmond came to Grant County Wisconsin with her parents, freed slaves from Missouri.
August 23, 1946
Stratman-Thomas, Helene, 1896-1973
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Lily Richmond and a Woman
August 23, 1946
Aunt Lily Richmond (b.1862), right, with Ollie Greene Lewis at Pleasant Ridge, 1946.
Dr. Charles Lindberg and Helene Stratman-Thomas
August 10, 1946
Helene Stratman-Thomas and Dr. Charles O. Lindberg, a Swedish singer.
Singer and Helene Stratman-Thomas
August 8, 1946
Helene Stratman-Thomas and possibly Ernest Joseph Belisle.
Charles Dietz and Helene Stratman-Thomas
September 2, 1946
Charles Dietz, a singer of English ballads, and song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas.
Donalda La Grandeur and Helene Stratman-Thomas
August 8, 1946
Singer Donalda La Grandeur, left, and collector Helene Stratman-Thomas on the porch at the home of La Grandeur.
Singer and Helene Stratman-Thomas
circa 1940-1949
Probably Ernest Joseph Belisle (b. 1901), a singer who recorded for Helene Stratman-Thomas. Helene is standing on the right.
