# People watching slot machine being played, Pilottown, Louisiana (1938)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2017738152-slot-machine-pilottown-1938/

Farm Security Administration photograph by Russell Lee of onlookers around a slot machine at Pilottown, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, September 1938.

The Library of Congress title is "People watching slot machine being played, Pilottown, Louisiana." Russell Lee made the photograph for the Farm Security Administration in September 1938. A woman plays a machine mounted at shoulder height on a wooden post while men and boys look on. The caption names no one, and it does not say who owned the machine.

The photograph is filed as a view of slot machines in rural Louisiana in the 1930s. No record ties it to any operator. The copy stored here is the Library's medium-size JPEG.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division: https://www.loc.gov/item/2017738152/
- Library of Congress item record (JSON): https://www.loc.gov/item/2017738152/?fo=json