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Collection: Lange, Dorothea FSA/OWI PHotos

1045 photos

A plantation store near Clarksville, Mississippi

Plantation store. Mississippi Delta

Plantation overseer. Mississippi Delta, near Clarksdale, Mississippi

President of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union at Hill House, Mississippi

Plantation owner. Mississippi Delta, near Clarksdale, Mississippi

At Hill House, Mississippi. He wears the union button

Sharecroppers' families gathering needs for their 4th of July celebration, whites and blacks together. Hill House, Mississippi

Children at Hill House, Mississippi

African-Americans hanging around the plantation store. Mississippi Delta

African-Americans under the National Youth Administration. Live Oak, Florida

African-Americans under the National Youth Administration. Live Oak, Florida

in Greenville, Mississippi

in Greenville, Mississippi

in Greenville, Mississippi

in Greenville, Mississippi

A note on transportation. Eden, Alabama

Farm folk spend a day in town. Eden, Alabama

Transportation in the South. Alabama

White tenant farmer works on shares. North Carolina

Transportation in the south. Alabama

White tenant farmer works on shares. North Carolina

boy. Hill House, Mississippi

Corn, drought-stricken and eaten off by grasshoppers. Near Russelville, Arkansas

Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma drought farmers. "Nothing to do. These fellers," said one of them, "are goin' to stay right here till they dry up and die too"