Title

Government charwoman who provides for a family of six on her salary..., Washington, D.C., 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks.

Caption

Washington, D.C. Government charwoman who provides for a family of six on her salary of one thousand and eighty dollars per year. She puts ten percent of her salary in war bonds. [Mrs Ella Watson].

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A53_259

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Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

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53,9Mb (1,3Mb) / 12,7in x 16,5in / 3795 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women woman people black interior library work job family business country sign finance patriotism occupation Washington photography machine machinery poor poverty war Washington DC District of Columbia location century patriotic profession inside accounts target grandmother bucket motivation concept negative cleaner film negative accounting African American African-American B&W 1940s afro-american washington d.c. metaphor Library of Congress adding machine cleaning woman Bull's Eye Forties United States of America Indoors black & white black and white B W 20th century War Bond War Bonds American America USA charwoman decade TGN women at work working photograph united states charlady Gordon Parks Parks Gordon Congressional Library Heritage Art quota Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI still image Parks Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks Parks Gordon Alexander Buchanan Gordon Alexander Buchanan Parks victory bonds Safety film negatives. gmgpc