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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
One Of The New Rackets Come To Town Is Fortunetelling
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

One Of The New Rackets Come To Town Is Fortunetelling

Artist John Vachon (American, 1914-1975)
CultureAmerican
Date1940
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in. (24 × 17.9 cm)
Overall, Support: 10 × 7 15/16 in. (25.4 × 20.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund
Object number84.78.46
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. 101.