Dorothea Lange
July 1939
{Zollie Lyon, Negro sharecropper, home from the field for dinner at noontime, with his wife and part of his family. Note dog run. Wake County, North Carolina}
{Tobacco sharecroppers and family at back of their house. Person County, North Carolina}
July 1937
{Sharecropper family near Hazlehurst, Georgia}
{Cotton sharecropper family. Macon County, Georgia}
{Landless family of cotton sharecroppers, Macon County, Georgia. For their labor they receive half the crop they produce, and the equivalent of ten dollars a month "furnish" (credit) from the landlord. Their vegetable garden failed this year for lack of rain}
{Sharecropper family near Chesnee, South Carolina}
{Cotton sharecropper family. Macon County, Georgia}
{Part of a family of ten children who live and farm in the area which was flooded in the spring of 1937. They escaped in a boat}
June 1937
{Cotton sharecropper family near Cleveland, Mississippi}
{Cotton sharecropper family near Cleveland, Mississippi}
Ben Shahn
Oct. 1935
{Boone County, Arkansas. The family of a Resettlement Administration client in the doorway of their home}
{Family of rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas}
{Family of rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas}
{Family of Negro sharecropper, Little Rock, Arkansas}
Carl Mydans
June 1936
{"Griffin children" of west Alabama land use demonstration project near Greensboro, Alabama. They are all third or fourth generation resulting from, it is believed, a white woman and a Negro. They are mostly white and refused to be placed with the Negroes, but the whites will not have them.}
Russell Lee
May 1938
{Family of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, former sharecropper, on porch of old shack home. New Madrid County, Missouri}
{Family of sharecropper on front porch, Southeast Missouri Farms}
June 1939
{Negro tenant farmer and his family on front porch of their home in Wagoner County, Oklahoma}
{Part of family of tenant farmer. Hill section, McIntosh County, Oklahoma}
July 1939
{Family of tenant farmer at noonday meal near Muskogee, Oklahoma. His wife is shooing away flies with branch. See general caption number 20}
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