Black Washwoman
Negro woman washing clothes outside of shacks along the river, on the highway between Charleston and Gauley Bridge, West Virginia
- Date
- 1938-09
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 450 × 640 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US FSA/OWI; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
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