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Collection: Lange, Dorothea FSA/OWI PHotos
1045 photos
Feet of cotton hoer near Clarksdale, Mississippi
Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi
Memphis, Tennessee. Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily during the season. Truck drivers are paid by the planters and serve as "runners" to recruit the men. Trucks leave at five o'clock in the morning for the Arkansas Delta plantations.
Member of the Delta cooperative farm at Hillhouse, Mississippi
Interior of church of the Mississippi Delta
Looking down Union Avenue. Memphis, Tennessee
Cotton hoers from Memphis bound for the Wilson Plantation in Arkansas, forty-three miles away
Cottonworker's cabin with outside stairway and loft. Near Blytheville, Arkansas
Cotton sharecroppers. Greene County, Georgia. They produce little, sell little, buy little
One of Delta cooperative farmsteads after a year of operation. Hillhouse, Mississippi
Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi. Clarence Weems, a young co-operator on the farm. He remembers the evictions in Arkansas, for his father was beaten and disappeared
Delta cooperative farm cabins and cotton. Hillhouse, Mississippi, after one year of operation
Working in the community garden which supplies fresh vegetables to twenty-eight families at the Delta cooperative farms. Hillhouse, Mississippi
Looking down Union Avenue. Memphis, Tennessee
Former tenant farmer on a large cotton farm. Now a tractor driver for one dollar a day on the same farm. Bell County, Texas
Mail boxes in Bell County, Texas. Three of these mail boxes are not in use. The tenant farmers have been replaced by tractor farming
Former tenant farmer on a large cotton farm now a tractor driver for one dollar a day on same farm. Bell County, Texas
Theatre in Leland, Mississippi
Servicesin a Mississippi Delta town. Leland, Mississippi
Wife and child of tractor driver. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi
Plantation owner with one of the plantation children. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi
family going to church. Ellis County, Texas
Roadside stand and filling station near Ennis, Texas