Title

Washington, D.C. Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman going home from work at 2 a.m..

Caption

Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman going home..., Washington, D.C., 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A59_378

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

53,4Mo (1,6Mo) / 42,0cm x 31,9cm / 4960 x 3766 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women woman people black child children interior library job family home religious country religion housing occupation sleep sleeping bed beds room Washington flat tired photography Christianity accommodation overcrowding poor poverty Washington DC District of Columbia apartment location century late profession inside asleep overcrowded grandmother grandchildren grandchild concept negative cleaner film negative weary African American African-American B&W 1940s afro-american cramped washington d.c. Library of Congress cleaning woman Forties United States of America Indoors black & white black and white B W 20th century American America USA bedchamber charwoman decade living conditions TGN bedroom photograph united states charlady Gordon Parks Parks Gordon bed chamber Congressional Library housing conditions Heritage Art 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 Safety film negatives. gmgpc