Title

Caroline Atwater, wife of Negro owner, tells how they got their place.

Caption

Caroline Atwater, wife of Negro owner, tells how they got their place, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A61_100

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

51,0Mb (2,1Mb) / 13,8in x 14,4in / 4129 x 4319 (300dpi)

Keywords

South countryside building buildings agriculture female women woman people black library work job farming house houses economics country occupation Southern North Carolina photography elderly rope cabin rustic farmer poor poverty location century well profession South Carolina thirties concept depression negative recession African American African-American B&W log cabin afro-american pulley Library of Congress old woman water supply United States of America elderly woman black & white black and white B W 1930s farm hand farmhand farm worker 20th century farmworker Great Depression rural American America USA agricultural worker farm labourer rural life TGN waterwell women at work water well working photograph united states Regionalism Congressional Library 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 Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative still image Nitrate negatives. gmgpc