Title

Mrs. Dorothy Bell, Irish-German descent, twenty-seven years old..., New Britain, Connecticut, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks.

Caption

New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorothy Bell, Irish-German descent, twenty-seven years old, mother of two children, employed at the American Railway Company, sorting packages, weighting them, etc., earns seventy-nine and one- half cents an hour.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A52_342

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NA

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NA

License type

Rights managed

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65,6Mb (1,3Mb) / 15,4in x 16,5in / 4625 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany female women woman people interior library work job communication communications family German country writing occupation weighing scales companionship mother photography poor poverty motherhood location century profession inside parenting signing company concept negative parcel film negative sorting B&W 1940s Library of Congress postal worker mum Connecticut Forties United States of America Hartford postal service 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 Irish American 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