Sujet

A crew of 200 hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at a dollar a day, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

A crew of 200 hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at a dollar a day. Many of these are ex-tenant farmers.

Date

1937

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A50_009

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

177,5Mo (5,8Mo) / 75,8cm x 58,7cm / 8955 x 6930 (300dpi)

Mots clés

countryside agriculture field fields people employment job farming economics country occupation tools tool photography rustic poor poverty plantation farmland location century Mississippi profession thirties concept depression negative recession exploitation B&W hoes hoe hoeing United States of America black & white black and white B W 1930s farm hand farmhand farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers 20th century farmworker farmworkers Great Depression rural American America USA agricultural worker farm labourer rural life TGN photograph united states Regionalism Heritage Art agricultural workers farm labourers 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