Inscription Stamped in black ink on verso, center: Note to Editors: SEP 8 1937 / Under each reproduction of this picture [illegible] / be [illegible] the following credit: / “ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO” / This picture may not be syndicated, rented, or / loaned, / or used for advertising purposes. / The Associated Press
Recto, caption: 6289 Associated Press Photo From Chicago Please Use Credit PRESIDENT’S PICKININNY This Pickininny was “parked” in a box while his mother helped gather the first cotton crop grown on President Roosevelt’s 2,000 acre Pine Mountain farm near Warm Springs, Ga.: ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO CX ABO, SO-TEX OUT 1250 PCDT 9-8-37ST
Additional caption: Warm Springs, Ga. – This “pickininny” was parked in a box while his mother picked cotton on President Roosevelt’s farm.
Provenance Jo C. Tartt, Jr., Warrenton, Virginia; 2015 gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art