A black-and-white photograph of a young White girl wearing dirty clothes, one hand held up to her forehead, sitting in front of a canvas tent.

Child of a Migrant Worker Sitting on a Bed in Tent Home of Cotton Picking Sacks, Harlingen, Texas, February 1939

Russell Lee (1903-1986)

Date

1939
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 6 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.
Sheet: 8 1/8 x 10 in.
Inscriptions

Verso:
u.r. in graphite: [illeg.]
c.l. in graphite: PF 5852
c. [stamp in black ink]: PLEASE CREDIT \ F.S.A. \ FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION \ PHOTO BY: LEE
c. in graphite: 11982M2
c. [stamp in black ink]: PLEASE NOTE: Kindly Return Unused \ Photos to the Division of Information, \ Farm Security Administration, \ Washington, D.C.
l.l. upsidedown in graphite: Lee [probably not artist's signatur
l.c. [typed upsidedown]: Child of migrant worker sitting on bed in tent home of cotton picking sacks, Harligen, Texas \ Feb. 1939
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Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

P1996.20
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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