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Collection: Lange, Dorothea FSA/OWI PHotos
1045 photos
Tractor and operator. Navarro, Texas
Liberty Finance Company. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Man in front of post office. Carey, Texas. This town is fast becoming a ghost town because of mechanization of cotton and displacement of tenant farmers
Abandoned cafe in Carey, Texas. Carey is fast becoming a ghost town of the Texas plains
Farmers sack mixed grasshopper bait for use on their farms to control the pest. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Idle men attend the morning movies. There are three such movies in one block. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Farmers sacking grasshopper bait. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The riding boss. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi
White laborer of the Mississippi Delta. Issaquena County, Mississippi
Sharecropper of the Mississippi Delta. Issaquena County, Mississippi
Old African-American He hoes, picks cotton and is full of good humor. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi
Home of white tenant farmer family. Newport, Oklahoma
Home of white tenant farmer family. Newport, Oklahoma
Bound for the wheat harvest. Southwestern Oklahoma
Tractors cultivating cotton. Twenty-two tractors have replaced 130 tenant families on the Aldridge Plantation, near Leland, Mississippi
Tractor on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. One man and a four-row cultivator does the work of eight men and eight mules under the one man-one mule system which is still common
Tractor operator on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland Mississippi. These young African-Americans drive tractors for one dollar and twenty-five cents a day and cabin
Sharecropper's cabin, cotton and corn, near Jackson, Mississippi
Sharecropper's cabin and sharecropper's wife. Ten miles south of Jackson, Mississippi
Hinds County, Mississippi. "Cotton rules the world," says this sharecropper woman
Abandoned tenant house on a mechanized plantation of the Mississippi Delta
A crew of two hundred colored hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at one dollar a day. Many of them are ex-tenant farmers. Near Leland, Mississippi
on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. "We know our white folks (planters) and just what to say to please them"