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A Photo Dossier on Sharecropping


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Arkansas sharecropper.
Photo by Ben Shahn, Oct., 1935.

 

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Wife of a sharecropper
Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Aug., 1935

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Sharecroppers
Photo by Ben Shahn, Oct., 1935

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Sharecropper's child suffering from rickets and malnutrition
Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Aug., 1935

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Shack of Negro sharecropper
Photo by Carl Mydans, June, 1936

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Front porch of tenant farmer's house
Photo by Russell Lee, June 1939

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Window in a sharecropper's cabin
Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Feb., 1937

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Interior of tenant farmer's home, Lousiana
Photo by Ben Shahn, Oct., 1935

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Kitchen corner in Alabama tenant farmer's house
Photo by Walker Evans, Aug. 1936

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Tenant farmer on his front porch. This farm is owned by an out-of-state woman and has been rented by this family for eleven years. The man says that the agent is changed so often that no one ever takes any interest in the condition of the land or the buildings.
Photo by Russell Lee, June, 1939

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An overseer's house in the sharecropper's section.
Photo by Carl Mydans

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Cotton Pickers
Photo by Ben Shahn, Oct., 1935

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Weighing in Cotton
Photo by Ben Shahn, Oct. 1935

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Parkin (vicinity), Arkansas. The families of evicted sharecroppers of the Dibble plantation. They were legally evicted the week of January 12, 1936, the plantation having charged that by membership in the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union they were engaging in a conspiracy to retain their homes; this contention granted by the court, the eviction, though at the point of a gun, was quite legal. The pictures were taken just after the evictions before they were moved into the tent colony they later enjoyed.
Photo by John Vachon, Jan. (?), 1936

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Evicted sharecroppers along Highway 60, New Madrid County, Missouri.
Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Jan., 1939

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State highway officials moving sharecroppers.
Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Jan., 1939

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Evicted Union activist.
Photo by Dorothea Lange, July, 1936

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President of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union at Hill House, Mississippi.
Photo by Dorothea Lange, July 1936

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White and black solve problems together on the Sherwood Eddy cotton cooperative of Hill House, Mississippi.
Photo by Dorothea Lange, July 1936

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