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Tenant family with six children who are rural rehabilitation clients of the Farm Security Administration. Greene County, Georgia

Greene County, United States

Home of farmer who has raised cotton for fifty years on his own land. Greene County, Georgia

Greene County, United States

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

Greene County, United States

Interior of a plantation house now vacant but for two rooms occupied by an old couple, tenants. Greene County, Georgia

Greene County, United States

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

Greene County, United States

What was once the "Big House" is now occupied by a family of white tenants who live in part of the crumbling mansion and farm a small piece of the nearby eroding fields. Greene County, Georgia

Greene County, United States

Washing facilities on a Greene County, Georgia, tenant farm

Greene County, United States

Washing facilities on a Greene County, Georgia, tenant farm

Greene County, United States

wage laborer and part of his family. He is coming home from the commissary with a week's rations. Macon County, Georgia

Macon County, United States

Southern lady of the old school on the veranda of the "Big House" of the Wray Plantation, Georgia

Greene County, United States

Southern lady on the veranda of the "Big House" at the Wray Plantation, Georgia

Greene County, United States

Abandoned coaches and wagons behind the old blacksmith shop on the Wray Plantation. Greene County, Georgia

Greene County, United States

House occupied by sharecropper family for seven years. Near Hartwell, Georgia

Hartwell, United States

Home of sharecropper family near Chesnee, South Carolina

Chesnee, United States

House of cotton sharecropper (white) near Gaffney, South Carolina

Gaffney, United States

Child of sharecropper. Near Gaffney, South Carolina

Gaffney, United States

Water supply near Hartwell, Georgia

Hartwell, United States

Sharecropper family near Chesnee, South Carolina

Chesnee, United States

Grandmother of sharecropper family near Chesnee, South Carolina

Chesnee, United States

Grandmother of fifty-six children, mother of fourteen, ten living. Near Chesnee, South Carolina

Chesnee, United States

South Carolina sharecropper

Back door of Texas tenant farmer's house. He has worked this farm for twenty years