WASECA – BARBADOS ISLAND STORY: FILLING CUPS AT COFFEE URN AT END OF CHOW LINE
Photographic print of migrant workers filling coffee cups
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Date
- 1940s-1950s
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (sheet): 7 7/8 × 9 3/4 in. (20 × 24.8 cm)
- H x W (image): 7 5/8 × 9 1/2 in. (19.3 × 24.1 cm)
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of unidentified men during a meal. The center of the image has a table with two (2) coffee urns. The men are standing in overalls and hats. The man in the foreground on the left is facing the camera and helping a man in the center, with his back to the camera, fill his coffee cup. Some of the other men are drinking coffee and holding mess kits filled with food. The metal siding of a building is visible in the background. The title is printed on the back.
- Place depicted
- Barbados, Caribbean, North and Central America
- Waseca County, Minnesota, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Topic
- Cooking and dining
- Labor
- Migrations
- Photography
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2018.17.10.8
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.