Coal miner, his wife and two children, (notice the child's l.
Coal miner, his wife and two children, notice the child's legs, Bertha Hill, West Virginia, Sep. 1938. Wolcott, Marion Post -- Photographer. September 1938 Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / West Virginia. / Marion Post Wolcott. (more info) Repository: The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Photographs and Prints Division. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery. Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1260063 Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)
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- 1938-09
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- New York Public Library
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- photograph
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- 760 × 513 pixels
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