Florida Migratory Agricultural Workers Arrive at their New Home Near Onley, Virginia. There is no Store at the Place and the Only Drinking Water is at the Next Farm
Artist
Jack Delano
(American, 1914 - 1997)
CultureAmerican
Date1940
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 7 × 9 3/8 in. (17.8 × 23.8 cm)
Overall, Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 15/16 × 16 in. (50.6 × 40.6 cm)
Overall, Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 15/16 × 16 in. (50.6 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund
Object number84.78.102
Not on view
DescriptionThis is one of a series of 132 FSA photographs of Virginia; all are gelatin silver prints.Label TextJack Delano American, 1914–1997 Florida Migratory Agricultural Workers Arrive at their New Home Near Onley, Virginia. There is no Store at this Place and the Only Drinking Water is at the Next Farm, July 1940 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed 1984 Migrant workers made do with substandard housing, as seen in this bare farmhouse. Most people on the Eastern Shore did not have running water until 1939, and it took much longer for plumbing to reach rural areas. Jack Delano’s image offers a glimpse of the living conditions that migrants encountered in their search for work. Chrysler Museum purchase 84.78.102 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. 84.
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