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Production crew in downtown Fort Scott, Kansas. Gordon Parks, Jr. (Center) takes a photograph.

Learning Tree production crew, seated and Gordon Parks, Jr. takes a photograph

Actor Kyle Johnson (Newt Winger), facing away from the camera, is photographed byGordon Parks' oldest son, Gordon Parks Junior. Various actors and crew members mingle in the street in front of a red brick house.

Learning Tree actors and crew in front of brick house

Actresses S. Pearl Sharpe (Prissy) wearing a long black dress, talks with actor Joel Flullen (Uncle Rob) and others. This photograph was likely taken around the filming of Sarah Winger’s funeral scene.

Man with camera talking to actress Pearl Sharpe and actor Joel Flullen

Gordon Parks' eldest son, Gordon Parks Junior, holdS a camera as crew film a scene in downtown Fort Scott, Kansas.

Gordon Parks Junior with camera in front of Learning Tree crew filming scene

Director Gordon Parks, standing in the center of the photograph wearing a red ascot and blue jeans, speaks to his eldest son, Gordon Parks Junior, in front of production truck.

Director Gordon Parks speaking with Gordon Parks Junior in front of truck


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View the online exhibition, "Homeward to the Prairie I Come", part of the K-State Gordon Parks Project initiated by the Beach Museum of Art and K-State Department of English.

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