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Drinking at the bar-saloon, Raceland, Arkansas

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ArtistRussell Lee (American, 1903–1986)
TitleDrinking at the bar-saloon, Raceland, Arkansas
DateSeptember–October 1938
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 9/16 × 9 9/16 in. (16.6 × 24.3 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 in. (20.7 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineHenry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number79.200.XX.1.27
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A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a light-skinned man wearing a hat standing between two light-skinned women at a wooden bar, all of whom hold beverages and are looking at each other smiling. Above them hangs a photograph of a pin-up girl, and behind them a man is visible standing at a jukebox with his back to the viewer.

A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a light-skinned man wearing a hat standing between two light-skinned women at a wooden bar, all of whom hold beverages and are looking at each other smiling. Above them hangs a photograph of a pin-up girl, and behind them a man is visible standing at a jukebox with his back to the viewer.

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"Drinking at the bar-saloon, Raceland, Arkansas | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=79.200.XX.1.27