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Edwin F. Atkins
Photograph, circa 1923
17.5 cm x 12 cm
From the Atkins family photographs
Photo. 37.3
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In this photograph, taken in 1923, Edwin Atkins is sitting in the gardens at Soledad, wearing a black armband on his left arm.  Earlier that year, his second son, Edwin F. Atkins, Jr., was killed in a plane crash off Key West, Fla. along with his two sons.  Atkins is probably wearing the armband in memory of their deaths.


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