Unemployed bachelor, Jere-- Scott's Run Coal Fields
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Unemployed bachelor, Jere-- Scott's Run Coal Fields

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Photograph

Lewis W. Hine

Maker
American, 1874–1940

Unemployed bachelor, Jere-- Scott's Run Coal Fields

1936
Gelatin silver print
Image: 26.7 x 34.2 cm
Overall: 27.5 x 35 cm
Mount: 27.9 x 35.5 cm
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
1978.0731.0020
Inscriptions verso-(applied typed label) "No. 113 - Unemployed bachelor, Jere--
This man is typical of a particular group of stranded men in an
abandoned camp. He speaks English badly but indicated that the
government was interested in his welfare by indicating the picture
on the wall. Scott's Run Coal Fields Scott's Run, West Virginia
December 1936"
(in pencil) "Eisner 1506-A"
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