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Daddy Is a Trasher: 1939

July 1939. "Children of May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City. Their father is a trasher and they are playing with some things he picked up." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

July 1939. "Children of May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City. Their father is a trasher and they are playing with some things he picked up." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

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Different now

Today he would be called a picker, and he might get his own show.

Golf bag

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