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Detail of Texas Panhandle tenant farmer's house. He is now abandoning this house after twenty years effort to farm successfully

Sunday morning, Guanah, Texas. White congregation, ninety in attendance

One of a Texas sharecropper's ten children. Hall County, Texas

Hall County, United States

Flood refugees, four miles out of Memphis. Hall County, Texas

Memphis, United States

On the steps of the bank in the public square. Memphis, Texas

Memphis, United States

Wife of Texas tenant farmer. The wide lands of the Texas Panhandle are typically operated by white tenant farmers, i.e., those who possess teams and tools and some managerial capacity

The tractor driver (#16949) gets a dollar a day, this house to live in, and a cow to milk for working ten to eleven and a half hours daily. Three miles from Memphis, Texas

Memphis, United States

Tractor driver on cotton farm near Memphis, Texas

Memphis, United States

Hotel in Memphis, Texas

Memphis, United States

Front of general store in small cotton town. Texas

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Woman on relief. Memphis, Texas

Memphis, United States

Part of family on relief. Memphis, Texas

Memphis, United States

Tractor and operator. Navarro, Texas

Navarro, United States

Liberty Finance Company. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, United States

Man in front of post office. Carey, Texas. This town is fast becoming a ghost town because of mechanization of cotton and displacement of tenant farmers

Carey, United States

Abandoned cafe in Carey, Texas. Carey is fast becoming a ghost town of the Texas plains

Carey, United States

Farmers sack mixed grasshopper bait for use on their farms to control the pest. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, United States

Idle men attend the morning movies. There are three such movies in one block. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, United States

Farmers sacking grasshopper bait. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, United States

The riding boss. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi

White laborer of the Mississippi Delta. Issaquena County, Mississippi

Issaquena County, United States

Sharecropper of the Mississippi Delta. Issaquena County, Mississippi

Issaquena County, United States

Old African-American He hoes, picks cotton and is full of good humor. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi