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Before They Were the Eameses

Photograph of Charles at Laclede Steel Company

1923

In 1919, Charles’s father passed away. Two years later, he got a job at the Laclede Steel Company in St. Louis, Missouri, to help support his mother and sister. This picture, dated April 1923, was taken when Charles was sixteen.

  • Medium:Photograph
  • Dimensions:1 9/16 x 2 3/8 in. (4 x 6 cm)
  • Item:A.2019.1.006