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A Man Sleeping at Baltimore’s Fish Market in 1938

A July 1938 photograph shows a man asleep at the Baltimore fish market.

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July 1938. Man sleeping in the Baltimore fish market. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Dick Sheldon for the Farm Security Administration.
July 1938. Man sleeping in the Baltimore fish market. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Dick Sheldon for the Farm Security Administration. Source: Shorpy.

Interesting photo. This guy has to be ridiculously tired to sleep there.

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