Object Details
- photographer
- Mydans, Carl
- Description
- As part of his job with the Farm Security Administration, Mydans traveled to Missouri and captured the lodgings of a sharecropping family. Mydans' F.S.A. caption indicates that this is a photograph of a kitchen in a cabin purchased for the Lake of the Ozarks project.
- Lake of the Ozarks is one of the world's largest manmade lakes. The main objective during the project was the construction of the Bagnell Dam in order to maintain a hydroelectric power plant. Hundreds of support buildings --serving as housing, a hospital, a jail, and a commissary-- also needed to be constructed to accommodate the thousands of workmen for the project's completion. The cabin pictured here may have served as lodging for one of these workers and his family.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1936-05
- 1936
- ID Number
- 2005.0228.007
- accession number
- 2005.0228
- catalog number
- 2005.0228.007
- Object Name
- photograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 16 in x 19 3/4 in; 40.64 cm x 50.165 cm
- place made
- United States: Missouri
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photography
- Carl Mydans
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1303255
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-e8f3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
