Hunger drives slave laborers to death's door – Antique Wall Art
![Hunger drives slave laborers to death's door, [ca. 1951] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d7/d751da79beba-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Hunger drives slave laborers to death's door. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hunger drives slave laborers to death's door
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The print reproduces a drawing by Sergei Korolkov showing prisoners driven to the brink of death by hunger in forced labor. It is credited to the U.S. Information Agency, the federal government's overseas information service, and is dated around 1951. Its caption tags point to labor camps, prisons, mining, and communism, subjects that Western governments in the early Cold War used to portray the Soviet system as one built on coerced labor. The date and attribution come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified.
| Created / published | [ca. 1951] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by the U.S. Infomration Agency of drawing by Sergei Korolkov. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Labor; Prisons and prisoners; Concentration camps; Geogr.; Communism; Mining. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,322 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145645 |
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