ID: 700009224 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009224	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1 2

Washington, D.C. Government Charwoman (photograph; Gordon Parks (American photographer, 1912-2006); August 1942; Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division ; Call Number: LC-USF34- 013407-C [P&P] LOT 156 [item] Corresponding print; Other Number: D 333 )

Note: Portrait of Ella Watson, a custodian in the Farm Security Administration building in Washington, D.C. Also known as "American Gothic," the photograph refers to the Grant Wood painting of the same name.

Titles:

Washington, D.C. Government Charwoman (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

American Gothic (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Ella Watson (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

photograph [300046300] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: August 1942

Creator Display:

Gordon Parks (American photographer, 1912-2006) [preferred]

photographer Parks, Gordon (American photographer, writer, film director, 1912-2006) [500019962]

Locations:

Current: Term Not Found (ULAN Candidate) (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: Call Number: LC-USF34- 013407-C [P&P] LOT 156 [item] Corresponding print; Other Number: D 333

Credit Line: Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

Display Materials: gelatin silver print

	gelatin silver process [300139114]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <photography and photographic processes and techniques>, photographic processes)

	black-and-white film (film, material) [300127344]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, photographic materials, photographic media, photographic film (photographic materials))

	photographic paper [300014190]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by function>)

Dimensions: sheet 23.7 x 18.2 cm, on card mount 29 x 24 cm.

Cultures:

American (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	modern (generic time frame) [300379388] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <generic styles| periods| and cultures>)

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	Ella Watson (American, born ca. 1886) [500475797]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	government employee [300113288]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in administration and government>) (AAT)

	custodian [300160390]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in service occupations>) (AAT)

	African American [300018125]
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Americas| The, modern American, modern North American) (AAT)

	American Gothic [700009447]
	.....(American Gothic [700009447], Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media [700009486], Movable Works [700000002]) (CONA)

Provenance: Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. Part of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection.

Related Works:

	printed from negative .... Washington, D.C. Government Charwoman [700009448]
	..........black-and-white negative; Gordon Parks (American photographer, 1912-2006); August 1942; Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division ; LC-USF34- 013407-C [P&P] LOT 156 [item]

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

............... Washington, D.C. August, 1942. Story of Mrs. Ella Watson, Negro government charwoman for 26 years, and miscellaneous scenes in Negro section

Sources and Contributors:
Washington, D.C. Government Charwoman	........ [VP]
	........ LC Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) (2000-) accessed 19 January 2017
American Gothic	........ [VP]
	........ TIME 100 Photographs (2015-) 36
Ella Watson	........ [VP]
	........ LC Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) (2000-) accessed 19 January 2017

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... LC Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) (2000-) accessed 19 January 2017

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... TIME 100 Photographs (2015-) 36
	..... Focal Encyclopedia of Photography (1993) 236