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Hotel clerk. Dover, Delaware

A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts an elderly, light-skinned man wearing a suit and standing behind a hotel desk. His expression is welcoming and animated behind a pair of wire-frame round glasses. The interior of the hotel lobby is relatively plain with empty light-colored walls and dark wood trim.

A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts an elderly, light-skinned man wearing a suit and standing behind a hotel desk. His expression is welcoming and animated behind a pair of wire-frame round glasses. The interior of the hotel lobby is relatively plain with empty light-colored walls and dark wood trim.

Artist John Vachon (American, 1914–1975)
Title Hotel clerk. Dover, Delaware
Date July 1938
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions Image: 6 3/4 × 8 1/2 in. (17.1 × 21.6 cm)
Credit Line Henry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 79.200.XX.3.48

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Publisher Farm Security Administration

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