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Collection: Lange, Dorothea FSA/OWI PHotos

1045 photos

Main street storefront, Chickasaw, Oklahoma. This is a region from which hundreds of farm families have fled to the west

Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Detail of sharecropper's porch. Washington County, Mississippi

Tenant farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field, five miles from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. Tractor drivers are not allowed to do anything but drive tractors. Repairs are made by the mechanic at the plantation garage

Cotton farmers near Oil City, Oklahoma, day laborers. Carter County, Oklahoma

Ex-tenant farmer, now a day laborer on large cotton farm near Corsicana, Texas

Georgia road sign

Father of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop from Corpus Christi to the Panhandle

Mail wagon. Marshall, Texas

Tomato packing shed for packing and shipment north. Hazelhurst, Mississippi

Sign near Tombstone, Arizona

Sign near Tombstone, Arizona. Boot Hill graveyard

Sign near Tombstone, Arizona. Boot Hill graveyard

Sign near Saint David, Arizona

Former Texas tenant farmers displaced by power farming

Twelve year old son of a cotton sharecropper near Cleveland, Mississippi

Hillhouse, Mississippi Delta cooperative farm

Cotton sharecropper family near Cleveland, Mississippi

Under the "for rent" sign, through the door, one flight up, is the headquarters of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Memphis, Tennessee

Cotton hoer near Clarksdale, Mississippi

Grandmother of sharecropper family near Cleveland, Mississippi

Cotton hoer near Clarksdale, Mississippi

Cotton hoer near Clarksdale, Mississippi