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June 21, 1972 MINNIE EVANS evening 3 X1 NHS: How do you know how old it is? ME: Mam ? NHS: How do you know it's that old? ME: Because I got the back of them in there. [[strikethrough]] Show her Willie [[/strikethrough]] It shows. NHS: Aaah ME: that the book was. It was made there in 1885. NHS: I'll be darn[ed.] ME: This was bought. It come off of 5th Avenue in New York NHS: How many pictures did you make on that paper? ME: Oh, I don't know here. [[strikethrough]] I got [[/strikethrough]] a whole lot of them. Oh, I had. There was two books and I had 96 pictures. Here it [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] is. All these pictures were in that book. See? And the paper is rotten. NHS: That's too bad ME: See? This been all paper and it is very very rotten. (NHS: yes, yes) and that's why I had 96 pictures in the two books. (laughter) NHS: Could I see the book? (ME: Mam?) Could I see the book? ME: The back? (NHS: yes) Well you won't find it on it because I taken and painted on the back (laughter). They are out here now. Mrs. Kelly: [[strikethrough]] That still [[/strikethrough]] [you] ain't told me nothing. (NHS: Ooh, Minnie) If you send that back to me. [Atom Bomb Painting] NHS: Tell me about this. ME: What does that mean? NHS: Yes ME: This is what that fortune lady told me about before the before the atom bombs come out. NHS: Oh, yes ME: That was in '43 (NHS: yes) Yes, I did that in '43 and she told me it was some kinda of a bombs. She said they are being prepared now. But we don't know anything about them. [[strikethrough]] We [[/strikethrough]] They going - oh! she told me so much about them. NHS: Who was that? ME: This lady, a fortune teller lady NHS: What's her name? ME: Tula