Esther Bubley

A young negro field worker on the C.L. Hardy tobacco plantation near Maury, N.C.
1946

A black and white photograph of a young boy looking over his shoulder at the camera. He wears a worn cap and a button-up shirt with one strap of his overalls hanging loose. In the blurred background, another person is seated on the ground near a bicycle.
A black and white photograph of a young boy looking over his shoulder at the camera. He wears a worn cap and a button-up shirt with one strap of his overalls hanging loose. In the blurred background, another person is seated on the ground near a bicycle.

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Date
1946

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 5/8 × 7 3/16in. (21.9 × 18.3 cm) Image: 8 5/8 × 7 3/16in. (21.9 × 18.3 cm)

Accession number
2018.210

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
© University of Louisville

API
artworks/58445

Esther Bubley
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