Sujet

Cotton sharecropper, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Cotton sharecropper. She was born "two years before the surrender." Mississippi. [General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate troops to Ulysses S. Grant, leader of the Union Army, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on 9 April 1865, marking the beginning of the end of the American Civil War. The Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery except as punishment for a crime, had been passed by the Senate in April 1864, and by the House of Representatives in January 1865].

Date

1937

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A50_114

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (1,6Mo) / 34,8cm x 36,1cm / 4105 x 4258 (300dpi)

Mots clés

South female women woman people black job economics country occupation photography elderly farmer poor poverty veranda verandah location century Mississippi profession porch thirties concept depression negative recession African American African-American B&W afro-american slavery old woman slave United States of America elderly woman Former black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression American America USA TGN photograph portrait united states Heritage Art Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell enslaved person Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI United States Office of War Information Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative sharecropper tenant farmer sharecroppers