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1955
GUSN-194387
This image depicts a ditch-digger in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood being persistently ignored by three fur-clad women. Reed's instincts drew him to the contrast between the worker and the residents.
blue collar workers
labor
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
1 photograph
PC044
Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972
PC044.TMP.054
Beacon Hill (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Reed, Verner, 1923-2006 (Photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Mount Vernon St. (Boston, Mass.)
Included in the exhibition, A Changing World: New England in the Photographs of Verner Reed, 1950-1972.
Item
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