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Clothes of white agricultural day laborers' family drying on the fence, north of Sallisaw, Okla, Sequoyah Co.

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ArtistRussell Lee (American, 1903–1986)
TitleClothes of white agricultural day laborers' family drying on the fence, north of Sallisaw, Okla, Sequoyah Co.
DateJune 1939
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (16.5 × 24.2 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 1/16 in. (21 × 25.5 cm)
Credit LineHenry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number79.200.XX.1.204
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A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a makeshift wooden fence across a field that fills two thirds of the composition. On the fence posts hang various garments set out to dry.

A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a makeshift wooden fence across a field that fills two thirds of the composition. On the fence posts hang various garments set out to dry.

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