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Lots of used cars, furniture - billboard in background and new shack in which salesman lives. He came to Alexandria from Lake Providence, La., and says, "We've got whatever we ask for them here. They're selling fast. I sold thirteen my first week here."

Artist Marion Post Wolcott (American, 1910–1990)
Title Lots of used cars, furniture - billboard in background and new shack in which salesman lives. He came to Alexandria from Lake Providence, La., and says, "We've got whatever we ask for them here. They're selling fast. I sold thirteen my first week here."
Date December 1940
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions Image: 7 × 9 3/8 in. (17.8 × 23.8 cm)
Credit Line Henry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 79.200.XX.4.38

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Publisher Farm Security Administration

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