Tolise Gathings

Tolise Gathings (left), wife of Arkansas congressman “Took” Gathings, with basket of peaches to be presented to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to commemorate the annual Peach Festival in Forrest City (St. Francis County); July 11, 1939.

Two white women boarding airplane, one holding basket of peaches

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

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