The day after we got here a man came and talked to my daddy. "There's a school," he says, "and we want your boy in it" Exhausted boy asleep at desk, migrant school, Cranbury, New Jersey, 1966.
Title: The day after we got here a man came and talked to my daddy. 'There's a school,' he says, 'and we want your boy in it' Exhausted boy asleep at desk, migrant school, Cranbury, New Jersey, 1966.
Creator(s): Rosskam, Louise, 1910-, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1966.
Summary: Photo no. 16a shows a man standing in a classroom pointing toward the front of the room, there are three African American students seated at desks, one with hand raised; photo no. 16b shows an exhausted student slumped over his desk, apparently asleep.
Notes:
Title from item, title for 16a typed, for 16b inscribed by Louise Rosskam.
Exhibited: 'A Life in Photography : Louise Rosskam and the Documentary Tradition' at the Maier Museum of Art, Randolph Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA, July-November 2002.
Exhibited: 'Re-viewing Documentary : The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam' at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C., 2011-2012.
Subjects:
African Americans--Education--1960-1970.
Students--New Jersey--Cranbury--1960-1970.
Fatigue--1960-1970.
Migrant laborers--New Jersey--Cranbury--1960-1970.
Gelatin silver prints--1960-1970.
Bookmark /2002712052/
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