Title

Miss Ida Hicks, Lithuanian, twenty-eight years old, employed..., New Britain, Connecticut, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks.

Caption

New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ida Hicks, Lithuanian, twenty-eight years old, employed at the American Railway Express Company, sorting packages, weighting them, etc., earns seventy-nine and one-half cents an hour. She formerly worked in a defense plant.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A52_258

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

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69,9Mb (1,4Mb) / 16,5in x 16,4in / 4960 x 4928 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation female women woman people interior library work employment job communication communications railways worker country occupation weighing railway companionship photography poor poverty location century profession inside company package concept negative film negative sorting B&W 1940s Library of Congress postal worker employed Connecticut Forties United States of America Lithuania Lithuanian Hartford postal service Indoors black & white black and white B W 20th century New Britain workers American America US USA decade TGN women at work working photograph portrait united states Gordon Parks Parks Gordon Congressional Library Heritage Art Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI nitrate negative still image Nitrate negatives. gmgpc Parks Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks Parks Gordon Alexander Buchanan Gordon Alexander Buchanan Parks The American Railway Express Company