Gordon Parks
1945, September
Gold Mining, Yellowknife, Canada

Gelatin silver print
9 1/8 x 11 1/8 in
 
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: March 13, 2008, 51, part 2 / lot 145)
 
Wide white margin at left with holes for insertion in an album, "28948" in pencil on verso. Photocopy of card entry [possibly from the Standard Oil Project?] for this number shows this is a Parks photograph of "Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Sept. '45. Negus Gold Mines." This is the assistant manager signaling for a lift.
 
LL/27831
 
XL