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Migrants playing checkers (with bottle caps), on a juke joint porch after a "freeze-out" of vegetable crops. Near Okeechobee, Florida

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Gelatin Silver Print
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. John H. and Jann Arrington Wolcott
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Keywords

  1. African American
  2. African Americans
  3. Checkers
  4. Ethnic
  5. Ethnicity
  6. Farm
  7. Farm Security Administration
  8. Farms
  9. Figure Group
  10. Florida
  11. Harvesting
  12. Landscape
  13. Landscapes
  14. Male
  15. Men
  16. New Deal
  17. New Deal, 1933 1939
  18. Occupation
  19. Occupations
  20. Okeechobee
  21. Recreation
  22. Sport And Play
  23. Wolcott, Marion Post

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