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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)

Vertical rows of abstract green plants alternatitng with rows of orange and red stripes.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 7: The migrant, whose life had been rural and nurtured by the earth, was now moving to urban life dependent on industrial machinery. (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 white woman drinks from a water fountain on one side of the river. On the otherside a black woman and her child drink from a separate fountain.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 19: There had always been discrimination. (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 woman reads a letter from a relative to a child.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 33: Letters from relatives in the North told of the better life there. (between 1940 and 1941)

A couple in oppulent outfits walk down the road.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 53: African American, long-time residents of northern cities met the migrants with aloofness and disdain. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection item 1182

Ernest Lawson

Approaching Storm (between 1919 and 1920)

Collection item 1184

Ernest Lawson

Harlem Valley, Winter (ca. 1921)

Collection item 1187

Ernest Lawson

New England Birches (not dated)

Collection item 1188

Ernest Lawson

Path of Sunlight, New Mexico (not dated)

Collection item 1190

Ernest Lawson

Spring Morning (1913)

Collection item 1192

Ernest Lawson

High Bridge - Early Moon (before 1911)

Collection item 1193

Ernest Lawson

Twilight in Spain (not dated)

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Collection Highlights The Migration Series
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