Cumberland Island, Georgia

Description:

Photograph of Alexander Sprunt holding a baby alligator in a wooded area on Cumberland Island in Georgia. A pair of binoculars hang around his neck and he holds a camera box along with the alligator's tail in his left hand.
A newspaper article is glued to the back beside handwritten notations, "Sprunt 1 Chamberlain 1 Getning 1 Larry 5." The article was published under "Woods and Waters" in the "Charleston News and Courier" on April 27, 1932 and describes a trip made to Cumberland Island in Georgia concerning "an encounter with a mother alligator."

• Title: Cumberland Island, Georgia
• Photographer: Paine, Morton Brailsford, 1883-1940
• Date: April 1932

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: Morton Brailsford Paine Photographs
• Object Id: MK 14215

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