Title

Check row planted cotton, Touchberry Plantation, Issaquena County, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Check row planted cotton. Touchberry Plantation, Issaquena County, Mississippi. This method, long used in corn in order to permit cross cultivation, eliminates as much as two thirds of the usual hand hoeing costs.

Date

1937

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A49_495

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

27,5Mb (1,0Mb) / 12,2in x 8,7in / 3665 x 2622 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature South countryside agriculture field fields farming plant plants economics country photography growing rustic innovation horticulture plantation farmland location century Mississippi thirties concept depression negative recession cotton B&W cotton field United States of America black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression rural American cultivation America USA farming methods rural life TGN photograph landscape united states Regionalism Heritage Art Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI United States Office of War Information Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative