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Collection: Lange, Dorothea FSA/OWI PHotos
1045 photos
Landless family. Macon County, Georgia
Farm boy with sack full of boll weevils which he has picked off of cotton plants. Macon County, Georgia
Roadsign near Fullerton, Louisiana
Father of landless sharecropper family. Macon County, Georgia
Sharecropper. Receives five dollars a month "furnish" from the landowner. Macon County, Georgia
Thirteen-year old sharecropper boy near Americus, Georgia
Sharecropper's child whose father receives five dollars a month "furnish" from the landowners. Macon County, Georgia
Cotton sharecropper family. Macon County, Georgia
Cotton sharecropper family. Macon County, Georgia
Home of landowner, Greene County, Georgia. This man has owned his land since 1913. He has raised ten children here
Ex-slave and wife on steps of plantation house now in decay. Greene County, Georgia
Ex-slave and wife who live in a decaying plantation house. Greene County, Georgia
African-Americans who own land in Greene County, Georgia
Home of farmer who has raised cotton for fifty years on his own land. Greene County, Georgia
The cotton sharecropper's unit is one mule and the land he can cultivate with a one-horse plow. Greene County, Georgia
This man was born a slave in Greene County, Georgia
Tenant family with six children who are rural rehabilitation clients of the Farm Security Administration. Greene County, Georgia
Home of farmer who has raised cotton for fifty years on his own land. Greene County, Georgia
Texas tenant farmers who have been displaced from their land by tractor farming
Interior of plantation house now vacant but for two rooms occupied by an old couple. tenants, Greene County, Georgia
Interior of a plantation house now vacant but for two rooms occupied by an old couple, tenants. Greene County, Georgia
field hand getting ready to go to town on a Saturday afternoon. His wages seventy-five cents a day and cabin. He has six children
Old Negress of Greene County, Georgia