Sujet

As the auctioneer knocks down the last bid on each basket of tobacco..., Douglas, Georgia, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

As the auctioneer knocks down the last bid on each basket of tobacco in the warehouse, the price is immediately recorded, and the farmers go to the "money box" to get their money. Douglas, Georgia. [Sign: 'The Red Warehouse, Douglas, GA. Money Box - Tobacco Headquaters' (sic)].

Date

1938

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A51_196

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

66,4Mo (2,0Mo) / 39,6cm x 42,0cm / 4677 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors South building agriculture Caucasian people black male library job man men farming economics country sign white trade warehouse warehouses guy occupation Georgia photography rustic poor poverty location century profession tobacco thirties concept depression negative recession African American African-American B&W auction afro-american Library of Congress African-Americans auctioning United States of America auctioneer 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 auction house agricultural worker farm labourer rural life TGN outside photograph united states Regionalism Congressional Library 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 Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative