Title

A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty child..., New Britain, Connecticut, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks.

Caption

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, aged two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Children having lunch with a trained assistant.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A52_293

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Rights managed

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70,1Mb (1,7Mb) / 16,5in x 16,5in / 4960 x 4937 (300dpi)

Keywords

food female women woman people male boy boys child children girl girls interior library work family sitting industry country meal tables eating plate mother nursery industrial photography table poor poverty crockery motherhood mothers lunch location dish century inside mug parenting childcare furniture assistant concept negative radiator tableware film negative seated B&W 1940s mealtime Library of Congress luncheon mum Connecticut Forties United States of America Drinking vessel Hartford child care Indoors black & white black and white B W 20th century New Britain 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 child care center war industry