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Florence Coleman Joyes Dabney in April 1921. The Dabney-Coleman Joyes collection at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville contains an album of photographs of Dabney and his family. Photographs of Dabney and his military service appear in the Herald-Post Collection at the
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