Sujet

Mississippi Negress hoeing cotton, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Mississippi Negress hoeing cotton. She was born a slave "two years before the surrender". [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

HRM22A51_010

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

54,5Mo (1,6Mo) / 32,5cm x 42,0cm / 3841 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature South agriculture field fields female women woman people black work job farming plant plants economics country occupation tools tool photography elderly farmer poor poverty plantation farmland location century Mississippi profession thirties concept depression negative recession cotton film negative African American African-American B&W afro-american slavery hoe hoeing old woman cotton field slave cotton Plant cotton Plantation United States of America elderly woman Former black & white black and white B W 1930s farm hand farmhand farm worker 20th century farmworker Great Depression American America USA agricultural worker farm labourer TGN women at work working photograph 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