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(PHOTOGRAPHY—GREAT DEPRESSION.)
Waiting for Food Baskets
(supplied title.)
Photograph, 11 x 19
1
⁄
2
inches.(Philadelphia, circa mid-1930’s
[400/600]
If ever there were a case of a picture being worth a thousand words, this might be it. This
Depression era photograph shows that hunger and poverty are great social equalizers. The peo-
ple in this room, black and white, are waiting to have their baskets filled with apples, potatoes
and cabbages. The setting seems to be a City Hall or some similar official building. A group
standing off toward the front left, seem to be the organizers.
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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) ANONYMOUS.
Manning P. Brown, 1933.
Silver print
photograph, of an older black man, seated, with his hand on a book (the Bible?) 10
1
⁄
4
x 13
1
⁄
4
inches, mounted (glued) to a large piece of paper; a couple of penciled lines, squaring off
the photo suggest this was to be used as an illustration. Glue marks on the reverse are dried
and so not seem to have affected the photographic paper.
Np, 1933
[400/600]
An exquisitely sensitive photograph of an older African American man. Because of the date of
1933, this was possibly part of the W.P.A. project of chronicling the South.
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513
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(PHOTOGRAPHY.)
The
Glenarm Y.M. C. A band (supplied
title.)
Photograph, 7
3
⁄
4
x 9
7
⁄
8
inches on a
larger cardboard mount; tiny chip to left
edge of the photo; some general surface
soiling.
Denver, circa 1920
[350/500]
A wonderful image of these children, with such
proud and serious faces. The Glenarm Y.M. C.
A. was located in Denver, Colorado.
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