Photograph by
Associated Press, American, founded 1846
Subject of
Parchment, Stanford, British, born ca. 1922
Wellington, Claudius, British, 1923 - 2004
Date
1943
Medium
silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions
H x W (sheet): 10 3/16 × 6 5/8 in. (25.9 × 16.8 cm)
H x W (image): 9 11/16 × 6 5/16 in. (24.6 × 16 cm)
Description
A black-and-white photograph of Stanford Parchment and Claudius Wellington. The two (2) men are standing in front of a railing in a train station. They are both wearing suits, ties, hats, and pin back buttons with illegible text. Parchment, shorter and on the left, is holding a suitcase. He is leaning forward slightly and looking up and to the side at Wellington. Wellington has one hand on Parchment’s shoulder. Wellington is wearing striped pants and looking down. On the back is a date stamp, several numerical inscriptions, and a newspaper clipping with a printed caption reading: [Stanford Parchment, four feet, eight inches tall, and Claudius Wellington, who towers to six feet, rest a minute in a Chicago railroad station before starting the last leg of their journey from Jamaica to Wisconsin. They’re among 200 Jamaicans imported for farm work near Racine and Beaver Dam, Wis., in truck gardens. – AP Wirephoto].
Place depicted
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
Jamaica, Caribbean, North and Central America
Wisconsin, United States, North and Central America
Classification
Photographs and Still Images
Type
gelatin silver prints
Topic
Labor
Migrations
Photography
Transportation
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Object number
2018.17.10.6
Restrictions & Rights
Unknown - Restrictions Possible
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GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5af056b02-8bb2-4761-8b23-b6a09965e31c

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