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The Library of Congress Child of white migrant worker building fire I claim no rights other than colorizing this image if you wish to use let me know. Title Child of white migrant worker building fire in heating stove in tent home. Harlingen, Texas Contributor Names Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer Created / Published 1939 Feb. Subject Headings - United States--Texas--Cameron County--Harlingen - Migrant camps--Texas Format Headings Nitrate negatives. Genre Nitrate negatives Notes - Title and other information from caption card. - Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. - More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi - Temp. note: usf34batch3 - Film copy on SIS roll 29, frame 1422. Medium 1 negative : nitrate ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller. Call Number/Physical Location LC-USF34- 032163-D [P&P] LOT 614 (corresponding photographic print) Source Collection Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) Repository Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Digital Id fsa 8b37231 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b37231 Library of Congress Control Number 2017782176 Reproduction Number LC-USF34-032163-D (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-DIG-fsa-8b37231 (digital file from original neg.) Rights Advisory No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html Online Format image Description 1 negative : nitrate ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.
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You see that cast iron pot with the thick "C" handle on the lid, next to the stove? The pot itself has a thick wire handle that's tipped away from the camera. In the pioneer days of the American frontier, travelers would build a moderate fire in a wash basin, not much bigger than that stove, and place a pot like the one here inside, on top of the coals, using a steel bar with a shallow hook on the end to lift both the pot and the lid. Years ago I covered (photographically) a frontier event in far northwestern North Dakota--conestoga wagons, tents, horses, reenactors, the works--and the people there were cooking using that method. My God, what tasty food! You have not lived until you've had peach cobbler out of one of these pots.
Incidentally, the photo has been flopped, indicated by the "AGFA Nitrate Film" read backwards at the top (unless the factory had no quality control).
-Nik
Hard to imagine that people could live in such an environment.
Up till now it happens again to refugees in certain area's of the world (in particular the Middle East region and Africa).
I'm glad that you've colorized the original B&W image in a very apt way, because you've added posthumously some color in their 'gray' life.
