Sujet

Negro cotton hoers, Greenville, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Negro cotton hoers are taken from the Delta cotton towns to the cotton fields. Most of them are displaced sharecroppers swept off the plantations by tractor farming, depression, crop reduction program, etc. Greenville, Mississippi.

Date

1937

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A50_125

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,5Mo (1,8Mo) / 34,6cm x 36,5cm / 4088 x 4316 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation South agriculture people black male work employment job man men farming economics worker country dawn guy occupation Southern migration morning migrating photography truck trucks passengers passenger farmer poor poverty plantation location century Mississippi profession lorry lorries thirties concept depression negative recession cotton exploitation African American African-American time of day B&W afro-american displaced road Transport United States of America black & white black and white B W 1930s farm hand farmhand migrant worker farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers 20th century farmworker farmworkers Great Depression workers migrant workers American America USA agricultural worker displacement farm labourer farming methods mechanisation TGN displaced people photograph united states 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 forced displacement forced migration nitrate negative displaced person displaced persons forced migrant forced migrants sharecropper tenant farmer sharecroppers