Cumberland Island, Georgia
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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
- Collection: Photograph Collection
- Object Name: Morton Brailsford Paine Photographs
- Object Id: MK 14215
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