Sharecropper's shack in Missouri
date: label: Date made
content: 1936-05
label: Date made
content: 1936
name: label: photographer
content: Mydans, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: As part of his job with the Farm Security Administration, Mydans traveled to Missouri and captured the lodgings of a sharecropping family. Mydans' F.S.A. caption indicates that this is a photograph of a kitchen in a cabin purchased for the <i>Lake of the Ozarks project</i>.
label: Description
content: Lake of the Ozarks is one of the world's largest manmade lakes. The main objective during the project was the construction of the Bagnell Dam in order to maintain a hydroelectric power plant. Hundreds of support buildings --serving as housing, a hospital, a jail, and a commissary-- also needed to be constructed to accommodate the thousands of workmen for the project's completion. The cabin pictured here may have served as lodging for one of these workers and his family.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
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content: Carl Mydans
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0228.007
label: accession number
content: 2005.0228
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0228.007
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 19 3/4 in; 40.64 cm x 50.165 cm