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Historic Photos of Harrison Mayes’ Sign Ministry

Ivan Massar, From the Selma to Montgomery, 1965

Like photo-essayist James Karales, photojournalist Ivan Massar documented the fifty-four-mile voting-rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Like Karales, Massar took a picture of Harrison Mayes iconic roadside marker in the foreground and the marchers on US-80 in the background.

From the Selma to Montgomery 1965 photoseries by Ivan Massar

Elliott Erwitt, Alabama, 1955

French-American photographer Elliott Erwitt with a snapshot of one of Henry Harrison Mayes corrugated metal crosses.

Walker Evans – Tennessee Road Sign, December 27, 1969

Peter Simon – Raymond Mungo on Liberation News Service road trip, somewhere in Nebraska, 1967

Photojournalist Peter Simon and Raymond Mungo, co-founder of the Liberation News Service (an alternative news agency), were on a road trip, taking a picture next to one of Harrison Mayes’ crosses. The typography is a bit different from Mayes’ more geometrical letters, but it’s one of his. Also, this is one of the more rare documented signs outside Appalachia.

Mungo posed with arms folded, in front of large cross bearing message: Get Right with God


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