Title

Sharecroppers grade the cured leaves on the porches...tobacco auction, near Douglas, Georgia, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Near Douglas, Georgia. Sharecroppers grade the cured leaves on the porches and sort them to go to the tobacco auction.

Date

1938

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A51_197

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

66.7Mo (2.7Mo) / 39.8cm x 42.0cm / 4703 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature leaves South agriculture female women woman people black male child children girl girls library job man men farming plant plants economics country body bodies leaf guy occupation feet foot Georgia photography rustic farmer poor poverty veranda verandah location century profession porch tobacco barefoot thirties concept depression negative recession tobacco leaves sorting African American African-American B&W afro-american bare feet Library of Congress United States of America black & white black and white B W 1930s farm hand farmhand farm worker 20th century farmworker Great Depression tobacco plant rural American America USA agricultural worker farm labourer rural life TGN the body photograph united states tobacco leaf Regionalism Congressional Library 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 Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative sharecropper tenant farmer