Sujet

A red clay Negro cemetery, Bethel Hill High School, Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

A red clay Negro cemetery. No attempts to lay out crops. The graves are in rows with narrow spaces between. This cemetery was a solid expanse of red clay washed by the rains. Even the gravestones are colored by the red clay beaten against them by rain On such markers as are cut there was misspelling such as "bon" for "born" and "die such and such atime, twenty one ears." Bethel Hill High School, Person County, North Carolina.

Date

1939

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A51_481

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,4Mo (1,8Mo) / 42,0cm x 30,1cm / 4960 x 3554 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature exterior outdoors South tree countryside library red plant plants economics country Southern color death North Carolina photography tomb rustic poor poverty mausoleum location century cemetery grave graves gravestone gravestones graveyard burial thirties clay concept depression negative recession African American African-American B&W narrow afro-american Library of Congress racism spelling United States of America Colour black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression rural American trees America US USA rural life TGN outside photograph united states Regionalism Congressional Library Heritage Art 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 still image Nitrate negatives. gmgpc Person County