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Provincetown Player: 1940
August 1940. "Local talent makes music on a Sunday afternoon under the soldiers' monument. Provincetown, Massachusetts." View full size. Medium-format safety negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration.
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Provincetown: 1940
August 1940. "Local talent makes music on a Sunday afternoon under the soldiers' monument. Provincetown, Massachusetts." View full size. Medium-format safety negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration.
- 5 comments
- 18825 reads
Cockfight: 1937
Puerto Rico, December 1937. "The beginning of the cockfight. When the man in the center raises the cloth, the birds will see each other and begin to fight." Medium format nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the FSA. View full size.
- 2 comments
- 16048 reads
Pallbearers: 1938
January 1938. "Ponce, Puerto Rico. Funeral of a child." View full size. Medium format nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration.
- 3 comments
- 19458 reads
Full House: 1938
January 1938. "Interior of workers' shack. Porta de Tierra, San Juan, Puerto Rico." Note the drop-in guest. Medium format nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 7 comments
- 26281 reads
Earth and Sky: 1938
Puerto Rico, January 1938. "Workers in a tobacco field. The straw shed in the background is a hurricane shelter." View full size. Medium-format safety negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration.
- 5 comments
- 17511 reads
Chi-Town Urchin: 1941
April 1941. "Street urchin, Black Belt, Chicago." Also seen here. 35mm negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 4 comments
- 13754 reads
Springtime in Chicago: 1941
April 1941. Street scene in the Black Belt, South Side Chicago. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration.
Black Belt Barber: 1941
April 1941. South Side Chicago. "Barber shop in the Black Belt." View full size. 35mm safety negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration.
- 5 comments
- 30097 reads
The Chicago Kid: 1941
April 1941. South Side Chicago boy. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration.
Tasty Hamburgers: 1941
April 1941. "Lunch wagon for Negroes. Chicago, Illinois." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration.
- 1 comment
- 20609 reads
Are You in the Possession?
April 1941. "Sign outside of church in the Black Belt, Chicago." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam, Farm Security Administration.
- 3 comments
- 22829 reads
Soul + Food: 1941
April 1941. Storefront church and adjacent lunch wagon in the Chicago Black Belt. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam.
- 2 comments
- 24047 reads
Federal Yeast: 1941
![Chicago street scene, April 1941. Papers littering the sidewalk are "policy slips." ["Policy" was a lottery gambling system once common in some black communities.] View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam.](https://www.shorpy.com/files/images/01567u.preview.jpg "Federal Yeast: 1941")
Chicago street scene, April 1941. Papers littering the sidewalk are "policy slips." ["Policy" was a lottery gambling system once common in some black communities.] View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam.
- 3 comments
- 19363 reads
Water Break: 1938
January 1938. Agricultural workers on a sugar plantation near Ponce, Puerto Rico. 2.25 inch nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam. View full size.
- 2 comments
- 29168 reads
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