Digital Snapshots

Dublin Core

Title

"Girls for Sale, Jackson, post-1936."

Series

26

Item

564

Identifier

147077-photonegative-0564

Archival Description

"Girls for Sale, Jackson, post-1936." View of unidentified men.

Detailed Description

From the Eudora Welty Digital Archives Photographs Collection - MDAH. Black-and-white photograph of three white men sitting on steps. The man on the right is wearing a short-sleeved button-up shirt with dark-colored pants, shoes, and hat. The man in the middle has a cigarette in his hand and is wearing light-colored pants with a long-sleeved button-up and military-style cap, with dark shoes. The man on the left is wearing dark pants and long-sleeved button-up with a hat. There is an arched doorway and two signs behind them. The signs partially read "Girls for Sale, Honor Lost" and "Girls who live 1000 year. Sex".

Creator

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001

Date

ca. 1930s

Location

Jackson, Mississippi

Rights

Copyright © Eudora Welty, LLC; Courtesy Eudora Welty Collection – Mississippi Department of Archives and History
(Permission to publish required).