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Migratory harvest hand asleep on bench on main street. Okarche, Okla.

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ArtistRussell Lee (American, 1903–1986)
TitleMigratory harvest hand asleep on bench on main street. Okarche, Okla.
DateJune 1949
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 8 3/4 in. (19.1 × 22.2 cm)
Credit LineHenry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number79.200.XX.1.127
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A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a man laying on his back spread across a wooden street bench that is sitting in front of a brick storefront. He wears a hat over his face and crosses his arms over his chest. A sign in the storefront window reads,

A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a man laying on his back spread across a wooden street bench that is sitting in front of a brick storefront. He wears a hat over his face and crosses his arms over his chest. A sign in the storefront window reads, "REDEEM | Kellogg's | COUPONS | HERE."

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