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Collection: Lange, Dorothea FSA/OWI PHotos

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Turpentine worker's family near Cordele, Alabama. Father's wages one dollar a day. This is the standard of living the turpentine trees support

Children of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama. The father earns one dollar a day

Home of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama. Father's wage is one dollar a day. This is the standard of living the turpentine trees support

Children of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama. The father earns one dollar a day

Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country. North Florida

Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country. Northern Florida

Drying up corn near Eutaw, Alabama

Mississippi Delta children

Typical cotton picker's shack of the South. Mississippi

Family of one of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas who has been resettled at Hill House, Mississippi

Peach pickers being driven to the orchards. They earn seventy-five cents a day. Muscella, Georgia

Peach pickers. They earn seventy-five cents a day in the orchards. Muscella, Georgia

Migrant shed worker. Northeast Florida

Turpentine trees. Northern Florida

Street scene. Macon, Georgia

Street scene. Macon, Georgia

North Carolina threshing

"Coon dawgling." Memphis, Tennessee

Many cabins of this type are found on the Mississippi Delta

Resettlement project located near Gainesville, Georgia

Hoe culture in the South. Poor white, North Carolina

church. Mississippi Delta near Greenville, Mississippi

church on the banks of the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi

woman carrying her shoes home from church. Mississippi Delta