WASECA – BARBADOS ISLAND STORY: FAVORITE PASTIME IS A GAME OF CARDS.
Photographic print of migrant workers playing cards
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Date
- June 24, 1944
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (sheet): 9 3/4 × 7 7/8 in. (24.8 × 20 cm)
- H x W (image): 9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in. (24.1 × 19.4 cm)
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of a group of men, Barbadian migrant workers, playing cards. There is a crate in the center being used as a table. Six (6) men are crouched around the crate, most of them holding cards in their hands. The two (2) men in the back center are wearing hats, one a wide-brim style and the other a baseball cap. There is a man standing in the back left, with only his lower half visible. Four (4) of the men are wearing overalls. The siding and screen door of a building are visible in the background. On the back is a date stamp, several numerical inscriptions, and a typed label with the title/caption.
- Place depicted
- Waseca County, Minnesota, United States, North and Central America
- Cultural Place
- Barbados, Caribbean, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Topic
- Labor
- Migrations
- Photography
- Recreation
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2018.17.10.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




