Title

Pharr Plantation house near Social Circle, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Pharr Plantation house near Social Circle, Georgia. This house was built in 1840 by slave labor. The bricks came from England to Savannah, thence by oxteam to the plantation. The plantation formerly had 150 slaves, is now abandoned by the one remaining member of the family, and the land rented out to small farmers.

Date

1937

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A51_039

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,4Mb (2,1Mb) / 16,5in x 12,8in / 4960 x 3835 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors countryside building buildings agriculture field fields wood timber house houses architecture economics country Georgia photography wooden rustic plantation farmland location century thirties derelict dilapidated concept depression negative recession nobody film negative B&W United States of America 19th century black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century antebellum Great Depression nineteenth century rural American America USA rural life TGN outside photograph landscape united states Regionalism Heritage Art Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell 19th-century Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI United States Office of War Information Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative