Sujet

Hoers, Aldridge Plantation, near Leland, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

A crew of two hundred colored hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at one dollar a day. Many of them are ex-tenant farmers. Near Leland, Mississippi.

Date

1937

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A50_021

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

177,3Mo (6,1Mo) / 75,8cm x 58,6cm / 8957 x 6917 (300dpi)

Mots clés

South countryside agriculture field fields female women woman people black employment job farming economics country occupation tools tool photography rustic poor poverty plantation farmland location century Mississippi profession thirties concept depression recession transparency exploitation African American African-American B&W afro-american hoes hoe hoeing African-Americans 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 African Americans 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