Title

Grandfather of fifty-six children, Chesnee, South Carolina, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Grandfather of fifty-six children. Chesnee, South Carolina. He left a 300 acre farm in the North Carolina mountains when his parents died fifty-five years ago. The farm afforded insufficient living and there was no work. He walked forty-five miles to Chesnee where he has lived ever since as a sharecropper.

Date

1937

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A50_284

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,9Mb (1,3Mb) / 13,7in x 14,4in / 4112 x 4327 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male job man men economics country guy occupation North Carolina photography rustic farmer location century profession grandparent grandfather South Carolina thirties concept depression negative recession B&W grandad United States of America elderly man black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression rural American America USA rural life TGN photograph portrait united states old man old men Regionalism The Carolinas 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 sharecropper tenant farmer