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Collection: Lange, Dorothea FSA/OWI PHotos
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Washing facilities on a Greene County, Georgia, tenant farm
Washing facilities on a Greene County, Georgia, tenant farm
wage laborer and part of his family. He is coming home from the commissary with a week's rations. Macon County, Georgia
Southern lady of the old school on the veranda of the "Big House" of the Wray Plantation, Georgia
Southern lady on the veranda of the "Big House" at the Wray Plantation, Georgia
Abandoned coaches and wagons behind the old blacksmith shop on the Wray Plantation. Greene County, Georgia
House occupied by sharecropper family for seven years. Near Hartwell, Georgia
Water supply near Hartwell, Georgia
Cultivating cotton at Lake Dick project, Arkansas
Cultivating cotton at Lake Dick project, Arkansas
Farmers about to begin cooperative cultivation of cotton at Lake Dick project, Arkansas
Cultivating cotton cooperatively at Lake Dick, Arkansas
Tractor on Lake Dick project, Arkansas
The highway going West. U.S. 80 near Lordsburg, New Mexico
She lives on "Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma
Water barrels on plantation cabin in Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas
The town of Caddo in southeast Okalahoma
Home on "Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. "I was offered twenty dollars for that house. I pay six dollars rent a year, and have some chickens and a garden"
H.L. Mitchell, Secretary of Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Union headquarters, Memphis, Tennessee
Colored laborers in Memphis, waiting at daylight in hopes of being transported to a cotton plantation for cotton chopping. Memphis, Tennessee
Part of the daily lineup outside the State Employment Service Office. Memphis, Tennessee
The town of Caddo, Oklahoma. Migrants leave the small towns as well as the farms of the southwest. This region is a source of many emigrants to the Pacific Coast
Crystal Palace Saloon, Tombstone, Arizona. Original bar of "Helldorado"