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Collection item 1149

Clarence John Laughlin

The Waters of Memory (1947)

Collection item 1150

Clarence John Laughlin

The Oak Arch (1941)

A steam locamotive travels through the dark with the bell ringing.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 5: Migrants were advanced passage on the railroads, paid for by northern industry. Northern industry was to be repaid by the migrants out of their future wages. (between 1940 and 1941)

Five cotton plants with boll weevills eating them.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop. (between 1940 and 1941)

A mother slices food for her child, who is peering over the table watching her.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 11: Food had doubled in price because of the war. (between 1940 and 1941)

A person sits alone, bent over in sadness. A single branch reaching across the image with a noose.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 15: There were lynchings. (between 1940 and 1941)

A man buys his train ticket at the train station, while his family sits on their trunk nearby.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them. (between 1940 and 1941)

A white man has three black men sign a contract.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries. (between 1940 and 1941)

A group of travelers with their belongings.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 35: They left the South in great numbers. They arrived in the North in great numbers. (between 1940 and 1941)

Passengers on a train look out the window at Pittsburgh's smokestacks from the steel mills.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 45: The migrants arrived in Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the North. (between 1940 and 1941)

Three men carry a coffin covered in flowers.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 55: The migrants, having moved suddenly into a crowded and unhealthy environment, soon contracted tuberculosis. The death rate rose. (between 1940 and 1941)

A lone laundress washes colorful clothing.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 57: The female workers were the last to arrive north. (between 1940 and 1941)

Men and women wait in line to vote. Two people sit at a table filling out paperwork. All of this is watched over by a white officer.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 59: In the North they had the freedom to vote. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection item 1182

Ernest Lawson

Approaching Storm (between 1919 and 1920)

Collection item 1183

Ernest Lawson

City Suburbs (c. 1914)

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