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Hoe Sharpener and the Line

Portfolio TitleConversations With the Dead

(not entered)Boss Inspecting the work of prisoners working in the line. In foreground, a hoe sharpener.

Photographer Danny Lyon (American, born 1942)

Date1968

(not assigned)Huntsville, Texas, United States, North America

Place createdNew York, New York, United States, North America

Mediumgelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 8 1/8 × 12 in. (20.7 × 30.5 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)

ClassificationsPhotographs

DepartmentPhotography

Credit LineMuseum Purchase: Carl Jacobs Gift Fund

Accession Number2009.60.17

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