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Stable hand and trainer eating picnic lunch before the Shelby County Horse Show and Fair, Shelbyville, Kentucky. Aug. 1940.

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Image ID

1260128


Item data

Title

Stable hand and trainer eating picnic lunch before the Shelby County Horse Show and Fair, Shelbyville, Kentucky. Aug. 1940.

Collection

Farm Security Administration Collection
Kentucky.
Marion Post Wolcott.

Names

United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 (Photographer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1940-08

Library Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Farm Security Administration Collection

Subjects

Kentucky
African American men
Stablehands
Picnicking
Horse trainers
Shelbyville (Ky.)

Genres

Photographs

Notes

Content: Original negative #: 30939-M1

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver, 8 x 10 in.
Gelatin silver prints

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b22609769
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): b08af090-c612-012f-4185-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. Stable hand and trainer eating picnic lunch before the Shelby County Horse Show and Fair, Shelbyville, Kentucky. Aug. 1940. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b08af090-c612-012f-4185-58d385a7bc34

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Stable hand and trainer eating picnic lunch before the Shelby County Horse Show and Fair, Shelbyville, Kentucky. Aug. 1940." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 18, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b08af090-c612-012f-4185-58d385a7bc34

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