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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Men Sitting Around the Stove in the Basement of Mr. Tilly's Second-Hand Furniture Store; He Allows Them to Sit Here All Night
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Men Sitting Around the Stove in the Basement of Mr. Tilly's Second-Hand Furniture Store; He Allows Them to Sit Here All Night

Artist John Vachon (American, 1914-1975)
CultureAmerican
Date1940
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 6 3/8 × 9 1/4 in. (16.2 × 23.5 cm)
Overall, Support: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund
Object number84.78.42
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is one of a series of 132 FSA photographs of Virginia; all are gelatin silver prints.

ProvenancePurchased prints from Library of Congress (negatives on file at Library of Congress,) 1984.Exhibition History"Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, May 3 - June 16, 1985. Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson. _Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs_. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA. 1985: p. 100.
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
John Vachon
Men in their Room at Mrs. Jones' Boarding House; Six Men Live in this Room, Sleeping in Three Beds, and Paying from Eight to Ten Dollars per Week Rent; Most of Them Have Families They Left Behind in Bluefield, West Virginia; Bristol, Tennessee; or High Po
1940
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
John Vachon
A General Store
1937
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Jim Dine
Chapter 12: The showman, Fire-eater, makes Pinocchio a present of five gold pieces to take home to his father, Geppetto, but Pinocchio instead allows himself to be taken in by the Fox and the Cat and goes with them
2006
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
John Vachon
Boys From Other Places Who Have Come To Work At The Hercules Powder Plant; They Have Been Unable To Find A Room So They Are Spending Their First Night In Town In The Railroad Station
1940
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
John Vachon
Men Eating at Salvation Army, Newport News, Virginia
1941
New photography by Ed Pollard captured with a digital camera-2006.
John Vachon
Honor Roll Of Men In The Armed Services At The County Court House
1943
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
John Vachon
Defense Worker and Family. They are from North Carolina, at Present Living in One-Room Apartment in Helping Hand Mission. Portsmouth, Virginia.
1941
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
John Vachon
Helping Hand Mission. Portsmouth, Virginia
1941
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
John Vachon
Family of Defense Worker from North Carolina. They Live in One-Room Apartment in Helping Hand Mission, Portsmouth, Virginia.
1941
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
John Vachon
The Mission Pianist In Is Room At The Helping Hand Mission
1941
Image Not Available for Mostly small-town teenage runaways, still wearing their mother’s lipstick, are picked up at night either by the police or pimps. “These girls in the picture are lucky; the pimps haven’t gotten to them yet,” said the fatherly office. “They sleep the night here and in the morning we turn them over to real social workers.”
Leonard Freed
Mostly small-town teenage runaways, still wearing their mother’s lipstick, are picked up at night either by the police or pimps. “These girls in the picture are lucky; the pimps haven’t gotten to them yet,” said the fatherly office. “They sleep the night here and in the morning we turn them over to real social workers.”
1976
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2018.
John Vachon
Street Corner, Newport News, Virginia
1937
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