A faceless laborer lifts what appears to be bales of cotton--presumably one of many for New York's textile and garment industries. The etching's dark, cross-hatched interior contrasts with a view of docks, tugboat, and buildings seen through the doorway. The anonymous toil depicted here would have been paralleled by sharecroppers in the South, although a market crash there precipitated a "great migration" north
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