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Lillie Mabel Hall 12.24.86 xmas dinner @ church TAAP 1992 Photo Credit Margot McMillan

Photographed in black and white, Lillie Mabel Hall is photographed cooking for a church's Christmas dinner in 1992. Lillie Mabel Hall is an elderly Black woman, she wears a black dress with white stripes forming a checkered pattern. She wears hoop earrings and a hairnet, a white sleeveless vest completes her look. She holds a bag of active dry yeast in one hand and is adding ingredients to a large mixing bowl with the other hand.