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Lillian Smith is pictured in 1928 at Laurel Falls Girls Camp, which was founded by her family in Rabun County. Smith was director of the camp from around 1925 until 1949. During those years she wrote her two best-known works, Strange Fruit (1944) and Killers of the Dream (1949).

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # rab288.

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