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Migratory workers who work at Ft. Bragg in Bunk House where several of them live, near Spartanburg, S. Carolina.

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ArtistJack Delano (American, 1914–1987)
TitleMigratory workers who work at Ft. Bragg in Bunk House where several of them live, near Spartanburg, S. Carolina.
DateMarch 1941
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 3/8 × 9 9/16 in. (18.7 × 24.3 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 1/16 in. (20.6 × 25.5 cm)
Credit LineHenry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number79.200.XX.5.8
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A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts two elderly, light-skinned men sitting on a wooden bunk within a plank-walled interior. One man wears a suit and tie and smokes a pipe, the other wears a vest. In the foreground is a table covered in newspaper and laid with a bowl, paper bag, and plate of food.

A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts two elderly, light-skinned men sitting on a wooden bunk within a plank-walled interior. One man wears a suit and tie and smokes a pipe, the other wears a vest. In the foreground is a table covered in newspaper and laid with a bowl, paper bag, and plate of food.

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