I think a lot about these two women and their countless hours of labor in the homes or offices of others. Though they were separated by race, nationality, and age, because of their gender and class they were relegated to the same job.
They were pious and proper and quick-tongued and outspoken. I think a lot about what existed for them beyond work when I look at Gordon Parks's most memorable image: the 1942 photograph he initially labeled Washington D.C. Government Charwoman, but renamed American Gothic during the revolutionary 1960s.
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