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Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
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
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

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

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 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund
Object number84.78.43
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.
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The Bridge into Radford; The Hercules Powder Plant is Seven Miles Beyond the Town's Limit
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