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Crewman Eating Dinner
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A member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta eating dinner while in the Caribbean. The man is wearing a button-up shirt and is sitting at a table with food on a plate in front of him.
June 1942
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965
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