Title

A tractor pioneer of the Mississippi Delta, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

A tractor pioneer of the Mississippi Delta. In 1927 he had 160 colored tenant families working his land, in 1936 he won thirty Farmall tractors and employs thirty families on day labor basis. He says, "Now I can make money. Hours are nothing to us. You can't industrialize farming. We in Mississippi know how to treat our niggers".

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A50_024

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176,6Mb (5,5Mb) / 29,8in x 23,0in / 8937 x 6908 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation South countryside agriculture Caucasian car cars automobile job technology farming economics country white occupation photography rustic farmer location century Mississippi profession thirties concept depression negative recession B&W racism road Transport United States of America Motor Car black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression Mississippi Delta racist rural American America USA farming methods industrialisation mechanisation rural life TGN photograph portrait united states Regionalism Heritage Art Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell southerner Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI United States Office of War Information Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative