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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