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Migration Series No.39: Railroad platforms were piled high with luggage

Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.39: Railroad platforms were piled high with luggage, Jacob Lawrence
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Migration Series No.39: Railroad platforms were piled high with luggage is a Harlem Renaissance Tempera and Hardboard Painting created by Jacob Lawrence from 1940 to 1941. It lives at the The Phillips Collection in the United States. The image is © Estate of Jacob Lawrence / ARS, New York, and used according to Educational Fair Use, and tagged Political Work. SourceSee Migration Series No.39: Railroad platforms were piled high with luggage in the Kaleidoscope

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 provocation, Jacob Lawrence

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 provocation

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.44: But living conditions were better in the North, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.44: But living conditions were better in the North

1940 – 1941
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Migration Series No.37: Many migrants found work in the steel industry, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.37: Many migrants found work in the steel industry

1940 – 1941
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Cousin, Suzie Porter, New York City

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Padma Sambhava

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Migration Series No.4: All other sources of labor having been exhausted, the migrants were the last resource, Jacob Lawrence

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1940 – 1941
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