Photographic print of migrant workers Stanford Parchment and Claudius Wellington
Object Details
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of Stanford Parchment and Claudius Wellington. The two (2) men are standing in front of a railing in a train station. They are both wearing suits, ties, hats, and pin back buttons with illegible text. Parchment, shorter and on the left, is holding a suitcase. He is leaning forward slightly and looking up and to the side at Wellington. Wellington has one hand on Parchment’s shoulder. Wellington is wearing striped pants and looking down. On the back is a date stamp, several numerical inscriptions, and a newspaper clipping with a printed caption reading: [Stanford Parchment, four feet, eight inches tall, and Claudius Wellington, who towers to six feet, rest a minute in a Chicago railroad station before starting the last leg of their journey from Jamaica to Wisconsin. They’re among 200 Jamaicans imported for farm work near Racine and Beaver Dam, Wis., in truck gardens. – AP Wirephoto].
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Date
- 1943
- Object number
- 2018.17.10.6
- Photograph by
- Associated Press, American, founded 1846
- Subject of
- Stanford Parchment, British, born ca. 1922
- Claudius Wellington, British, 1923 - 2004
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (sheet): 10 3/16 × 6 5/8 in. (25.9 × 16.8 cm)
- H x W (image): 9 11/16 × 6 5/16 in. (24.6 × 16 cm)
- Place depicted
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Jamaica, Caribbean, North and Central America
- Wisconsin, United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Topic
- African American
- Labor
- Migrations
- Photography
- Transportation
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2018.17.10.6
