Breakin' rocks in the hot sun: two photographs from Alan Lomax

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the Library of Congress, Alan Lomax Collection

click to enlarge - photos courtesy of

the Library of Congress, Alan Lomax Collection

Prisoners breaking rocks at a prison camp. The exact date of these photographs is unknown, but  they were taken between 1934 and 1950.  From Alan Lomax, the national treasure and incredible ethnomusicologist and folklorist. 

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