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Nurse, late 1930s
Carved limestone

Purchase with Fay and Barrett Howell Fund, 1983.61

The son of former slaves, William Edmondson
worked as a hospital janitor until the early 1930s,
when a vision directed him to become a stone carver,
using material salvaged from demolished buildings,
he carved hundreds of tombstones, graveyard mem-
orials, and portraits of historical, biblical, and every-
day characters.