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Kõigist Jacob Lawrence jäetud originaalteostest on kõige kuulsam The Library (1960), mis kuulub Smithsonian American Art Museum kogele linnas Washington, D.C.. Järgnevad sellest Genesis Creation Sermon V: And God Created All the Fowls of the Air and Fishes of the Seas (1989) ja Bar and Grill (1941). Meie kataloogist löytyb 157 teost kunstnikult Jacob Lawrence; galeriist on säilitatud 100 maailmas kõige imetlustunud teost, millest iga on esitatud koos kuupäeva, museumi ja oma luguga.
In the vibrant tapestry of twentieth-century American art, few works capture the pulse of communal aspiration as poignantly as Jacob Lawrence’s “The Library.” Completed in 1960, this masterpiece serves as much more than a mere depiction of a reading room; it is a profound window into the enduring spirit of the Harlem Renaissance. As one gazes upon the canvas, they are immediately swept into a bustling sanctuary of knowledge, where…
To stand before a piece from Jacob Lawrence’s Genesis Creation Sermon series is to be enveloped in a vibrant confluence of scripture, social history, and raw artistic energy. This particular panel, depicting "And God Created All the Fowls of the Air and Fishes of the Seas," transcends mere religious illustration; it is a monumental cultural document rendered in paint. Lawrence, whose life story was so deeply intertwined with the evolving…
Jacob Lawrence’s powerful 1941 work, "Bar and Grill," is far more than a mere depiction of an American social scene; it is a searing document etched in paint, capturing the suffocating reality of Jim Crow segregation. The painting plunges the viewer into the interior of a café, yet the atmosphere is anything but convivial. Lawrence masterfully uses composition to confront us with the visible, yet deeply ingrained, artificiality of racial…
In the profound depths of Jacob Lawrence’s 1989 masterpiece, Genesis Creation Sermon IV: And God Created the Day and the Night and God Created and Put Stars in the Skies, we find a breathtaking intersection between the divine and the earthly. This work is not merely a depiction of a biblical event; it is a visceral, rhythmic experience that captures the very moment light pierces the darkness. Lawrence, a master…
Jacob Lawrence painted Migration Series No.11: Food had doubled in price because of the war. This specific panel belongs to the larger Migration Series, a sequence of sixty paintings. The work emerged about 1941.
In 1963, Jacob Lawrence presented Taboo, a work that speaks with a clarity that belies its heavy subject matter. The painting captures two pairs of newlyweds, posed with the formal dignity of a traditional wedding portrait. On one side, a Black bride stands beside a white groom; on the other, the roles are reversed. They are dressed in full wedding regalia, their presence a calm assertion of existence in a…
Jacob Lawrence’s Genesis Creation Sermon II: And God Brought Forth the Fimament and the Waters is far more than a depiction of biblical scripture; it is a vibrant, deeply personal sermon rendered in paint. Inspired by the powerful oratory of Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Sr., this work channels the electrifying energy of Harlem’s cultural heart into an epic moment of cosmic genesis. The scene pulses with divine activity, capturing that…
In the somber, evocative landscape of Jacob Lawrence’s 1942 masterpiece, Tombstones, we are invited into a profound visual dialogue between life and death. Painted during the turbulent era following Pearl Harbor, this work serves as much more than a mere depiction of a graveyard; it is a soulful testament to the collective experience of African Americans in Harlem. Lawrence, a master of narrative storytelling, utilizes his signature dynamic cubism to…
Jacob Lawrence’s “The Letter,” part of his monumental “War Series” created in 1946, is not merely a depiction of sorrow; it’s an embodiment of profound human experience distilled into its most potent form. This work, rendered with the artist's signature flattened planes and stark geometry, immediately commands attention with its emotionally charged atmosphere. The central figure, hunched and isolated within a confined space, speaks volumes about the devastating impact of…
A single, vertical line of reddish-brown cuts through the center of the frame, acting as a steady axis for the scene. Around this pole, the world feels flattened and heavy, composed of large, overlapping geometric planes that strip away unnecessary detail to reveal the essence of a moment. A figure, draped in a white cloth that obscures the face, leans into the work. Only dark hands are visible, gripping the…
Genesis Creation Sermon VIII: And Creation Was Done and All Was Well1989 · SCAD Museum of Art
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Migration Series No.39: Railroad platforms were piled high with luggage1941 · The Phillips Collection
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Genesis Creation Sermon I: In the Beginning All Was Void1989 · SCAD Museum of Art
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Genesis Creation Sermon VI: And God Created All the Beasts of the Earth1989 · SCAD Museum of Art
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Genesis Creation Sermon VII: And God Created Man and Woman1989 · SCAD Museum of Art
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Migration Series No.23: The migration spread1941 · The Phillips Collection
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Migration Series No.31: The migrants found improved housing when they arrived north1941 · The Phillips Collection
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Migration Series No.37: Many migrants found work in the steel industry1941 · The Phillips Collection
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Migration Series No.59: In the North they had the freedom to vote1941 · The Phillips Collection
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 13: The crops were left to dry and rot. There was no one to tend them.The Phillips Collection
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Genesis Creation Sermon III: And God Said1989 · SCAD Museum of Art
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 57: The female workers were the last to arrive north.The Phillips Collection
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 43: In a few sections of the South leaders of both Black and White communities met to discuss ways of making the South a good place to live.The Phillips Collection
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The Card Game1953 · SCAD Museum of Art
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The Wedding1948 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Migration Series No.49: They found discrimination in the North. It was a different kind1941
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Migration Series No.45: The migrants arrived in Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the North1941
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Migration Series No.43: In a few sections of the South leaders of both Black and White communities met to discuss ways of making the South a good place to live1941
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Migration Series No.35: They left the South in great numbers. They arrived in the North in great numbers1941
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Migration Series No.33: Letters from relatives in the North told of the better life there1941
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Migration Series No.29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries1941
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Migration Series No.28: The labor agent sent south by northern industry was a familiar presence in the Black communities1941
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Migration Series No.17: Tenant farmers received harsh treatment at the hands of the planter1941
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Migration Series No.14: For African Americans there was no justice in the southern courts1941
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Painting the Bilges1944
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Watchmaker1946
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Cabinet Makers1946
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Sedation1950
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Vaudeville1951
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...if we fail, let us fail like men, and expire together in one common strugge... -Henry Clay, 18131956
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The Cue and the Ball1956
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Pool1954
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Street Shadows1959
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Through Forest, Through Rivers, Up Mountains1967
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Struggle Series - No. 10: Washington Crossing the Delaware1954 · Metropolitan Museum of Art
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...is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the prices of chains and slavery? Patrick Henry-17751955
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 53: African American, long-time residents of northern cities met the migrants with aloofness and disdain.The Phillips Collection
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them.The Phillips Collection
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The Migration Series, Panel no. 21: Families arrived at the station very early. They did not wish to miss their trains north.The Phillips Collection
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Frederick Douglass listened to William Lloyd Garrison denounce slavery
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Race riots were very numerous all over the North because of the antagonism that was caused between the Negro and white workers
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Migration Series No.58: In the North the African American had more educational opportunities1941
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Migration Series No.55: The migrants, having moved suddenly into a crowded and unhealthy environment, soon contracted tuberculosis. The death rate rose1941
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Migration Series No.54: For the migrants, the church was the center of life1941
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Migration Series No.53: African Americans, long-time residents of northern cities, met the migrants with aloofness and disdain1941
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Migration Series No.51: African Americans seeking to find better housing attempted to move into new areas. This resulted in the bombing of their new homes1941
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Migration Series No.47: As the migrant population grew, good housing became scarce. Workers were forced to live in overcrowded and dilapidated tenement houses1941
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Migration Series No.46: Industries boarded their workers in unhealthy quarters. Labor camps were numerous1941
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Migration Series No.44: But living conditions were better in the North1941
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Migration Series No.42: To make it difficult for the migrants to leave, they were arrested en masse. They often missed their trains1941
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Migration Series No.41: The South was desperate to keep its cheap labor. Northern labor agents were jailed or forced to operate in secrecy1941
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Migration Series No.30: In every southern home people met to decide whether or not to go north1941
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Migration Series No.27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them1941
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Migration Series No.25: They left their homes. Soon some communities were left almost empty1941
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Migration Series No.22: Migrants left. They did not feel safe. It was not wise to be found on the streets late at night. They were arrested on the slightest provocation1941
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Migration Series No.21: Families arrived at the station very early. They did not wish to miss their trains north1941
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Migration Series No.19: There had always been discrimination1941 · The Phillips Collection
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Migration Series No.15: There were lynchings1941 · The Phillips Collection
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Migration Series No.13: The crops were left to dry and rot. There was no one to tend them1941
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Migration Series No.9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop1941 · The Phillips Collection
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Migration Series No.7: The migrant, whose life had been rural and nurtured by the earth, was now moving to urban life dependent on industrial machinery1941
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Migration Series No.5: Migrants were advanced passage on the railroads, paid for by northern industry. Northern industry was to be repaid by the migrants out of their future wages1941
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Migration Series No.3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north1941
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Migration Series No.1: During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans1941
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Bar and Grill1941 · Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Harriet Tubman Series (Panel -4)1940 · Hampton University Museum
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When It Is Warm the Parks Are Filled with People1943
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This is Harlem1943
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Captain Skinner1944
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War Series: Shipping Out1947 · Whitney Museum of American Art
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War Series: Prayer1947 · Whitney Museum of American Art
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African Gold Miners1946
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Defeat1954
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I alarmed almost every house till I got to Lexington-Paul Revere1954
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Trappers1956
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Victory and Defeat1955
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We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility1955
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...for freedom we want and will have, for we have served this cruel land long enuff... -a Georgia slave, 18101956
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I cannot speak sufficiently in praise of the firmness and deliberation with which my whole line received their approach... -Andrew Jackson, New Orleans, 18151956
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Untitled (D2X9VM)1955
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Thousands of American citizens have been torn from their country and from everying dear to them: they have been dragged on board ships of ward of a foreign nation. -Madison, 1 June 18121956
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120.9.14.286.9.33-ton 290.9.27 be at 153.9.28.110.8.17.255.9.29 evening 178.9.8... -an informer's coded message1955
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Listen, Father! The Americans have not yet defeated us by land; neither are we sure they have done so by water--we therefore wish to remain here and fight our enemy... Tecumseh to the British, Tippecanoe, 18111956
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Fulton and Nostrand1958 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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Fruits and Vegetables1959 · Cincinnati Art Museum
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The Visitors1959 · Dallas Museum of Art
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Magic Man1958
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Parade1960
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Pool Parlor1942
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Firewood 551942
Neli teemat, mis esinevad neis originaalkindel kõige sagedamini, ning iga teema parim näide.
#14 Genesis Creation Sermon VI: And God Created All the Beasts of the Earth
#15 Genesis Creation Sermon VII: And God Created Man and Woman
#2 Genesis Creation Sermon V: And God Created All the Fowls of the Air and Fishes of the Seas
#4 Genesis Creation Sermon IV: And God Created the Day and the Night and God Creatied and Put Stars in the Skies
Kümne 8 muuseumi kollektsioonid, mis sisaldavad kõige rohkem sellel lehel esitatud teoseid.
| Muuseumid | Linn | Jacob Lawrence teosid | Selle nimekirja maalid |
|---|---|---|---|
 The Phillips Collection |
Washington, D.C. | 35 | Migration Series No.11: Food had doubled in price because of the war, Migration Series No.57: The female workers were the last to arrive north, Migration Series No.39: Railroad platforms were piled high with luggage |
 SCAD Museum of Art |
Savannah | 10 | Genesis Creation Sermon V: And God Created All the Fowls of the Air and Fishes of the Seas, Genesis Creation Sermon IV: And God Created the Day and the Night and God Creatied and Put Stars in the Skies, Genesis Creation Sermon II: And God Brought Forth the Fimament and the Waters |
 Whitney Museum of American Art |
New York | 4 | Tombstones, War Series: The Letter, War Series: Shipping Out |
 Smithsonian American Art Museum |
Washington, D.C. | 3 | The Library, Bar and Grill, Bar and Grill |
 Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Philadelphia | 1 | Taboo |
 Art Institute of Chicago |
Chicago | 1 | The Wedding |
 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
New York | 1 | Struggle Series - No. 10: Washington Crossing the Delaware |
 Hampton University Museum |
Hampton | 1 | Harriet Tubman Series (Panel -4) |
Vali vuosakülg, et näha selle ajastu definieerivat originaalteost.
Jacob Lawrence’s powerful 1941 work, "Bar and Grill," is far more than a mere depiction of an American social scene; it is a searing document etched in paint, capturing the suffocating reality of Jim Crow segregation. The painting plunges the viewer into the interior of a café, yet the atmosphere is anything but convivial. Lawrence masterfully uses composition to confront us with the visible, yet deeply ingrained, artificiality of racial…
In the quiet intensity of The Card Game, Jacob Lawrence invites us into a private, communal sanctuary where time seems to suspend itself around a simple wooden table. This 1953 masterpiece captures more than just a pastime; it captures the very heartbeat of social connection. As we gaze upon the four figures gathered in this monochromatic landscape, we are drawn into a world of focused concentration and shared experience. The…
In the vibrant tapestry of twentieth-century American art, few works capture the pulse of communal aspiration as poignantly as Jacob Lawrence’s “The Library.” Completed in 1960, this masterpiece serves as much more than a mere depiction of a reading room; it is a profound window into the enduring spirit of the Harlem Renaissance. As one gazes upon the canvas, they are immediately swept into a bustling sanctuary of knowledge, where…
To stand before a piece from Jacob Lawrence’s Genesis Creation Sermon series is to be enveloped in a vibrant confluence of scripture, social history, and raw artistic energy. This particular panel, depicting "And God Created All the Fowls of the Air and Fishes of the Seas," transcends mere religious illustration; it is a monumental cultural document rendered in paint. Lawrence, whose life story was so deeply intertwined with the evolving…
The Library (1960), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.. Järgnevad Genesis Creation Sermon V: And God Created All the Fowls of the Air and Fishes of the Seas (1989) ja Bar and Grill (1941).
43 aastat vanus: teos The Library on pärinev aastast 1960 ning Jacob Lawrence sündis aastal 1917.
The Library, Genesis Creation Sermon V: And God Created All the Fowls of the Air and Fishes of the Seas, Bar and Grill, Genesis Creation Sermon IV: And God Created the Day and the Night and God Creatied and Put Stars in the Skies, Migration Series No.11: Food had doubled in price because of the war, Taboo, Genesis Creation Sermon II: And God Brought Forth the Fimament and the Waters, Tombstones, War Series: The Letter ja Migration Series No.57: The female workers were the last to arrive north. Ülemine reiting näitab iga teose puhul aastat ja muuseumi.
Meie kataloogist leiate 157 teost kunstnikult Jacob Lawrence, mis on pärinevad ajastust 1940 kuni 1989.
Peamiselt The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.), SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah) ja Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) muuseumites. Ülalpool olevate muuseumite tabelis on nendest kõik loetletud.
Ajal 1940s: 56 100 sellel lehel olevat teost on sellel perioodil loodud, მათart közül Bar and Grill.
Sellel lehel on kõige vanem teos Harriet Tubman Series (Panel -4) (1940) ja kõige värskeim Genesis Creation Sermon V: And God Created All the Fowls of the Air and Fishes of the Seas (1989).
People (8), Harlem renaissance (6) ja Figures (6), kogu selle lehekülje 100 teose kohta.
Painting, 10 teoseks 100 töödelt sellel lehel.
Migration Series No.11: Food had doubled in price because of the war, Migration Series No.57: The female workers were the last to arrive north ja Migration Series No.39: Railroad platforms were piled high with luggage: The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. säilitab 16 selle lehel olevat teost.
