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• Collection: Highsmith (Carol M.) Archive

• Title: This is the 1809 Hotel Metropolitan in Paducah, Kentucky, that served as a welcome hostel for black visitors to the city before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War, when slavery and then rigid racial segregation prevailed in many parts of the mid-South
• Creator(s): Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
• Date Created/Published: 2020-07-15.
• Medium: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-highsm-64100 (original digital file)
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  
• Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 64100 (ONLINE) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Title, date, keywords, and additional description details based on information provided by the photographer.
  • The building, which hosted many "Chitlin Circuit" musician legends such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and B.B. King, became the city's African-American Museum.
  • Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2020; (DLC/PP-2020:047).
  • Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
• Subjects:
  • United States--Kentucky --McCracken County --Paducah.
  • America
  • Ohio River
  • Tennessee River
  • Hotel Metropolitan
  • Paducah African-American Museum
  • Chitlin Circuit
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Duke Ellington
  • Cab Calloway
  • B.B. King
• Format:
  • Digital photographs--Color--2020.
• Collections:
  • Highsmith (Carol M.) Archive
• Part of: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-highsm-64100 (original digital file)
• Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 64100 (ONLINE) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

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• Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 64100 (ONLINE) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

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