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Tenant Farmer Collection (page 3)

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Near Douglas, Georgia, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Near Douglas, Georgia, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Douglas, Georgia. "You don't have to worriate so much and you've got time to raise somp'n to eat." The program to eliminate the risk

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Near Douglas, Georgia, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Near Douglas, Georgia, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Douglas, Georgia. "You don't have to worriate so much and you've got time to raise somp'n to eat." The program to eliminate the risk

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Former tenant farmer from Texas now working in California as a pea picker, Nipomo, California, 1937

Former tenant farmer from Texas now working in California as a pea picker, Nipomo, California, 1937
A former tenant farmer from Texas now working in California as a pea picker. Nipomo, California

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Former tenant farmer from Texas now working in California as a pea picker, Nipomo, California, 1937

Former tenant farmer from Texas now working in California as a pea picker, Nipomo, California, 1937
A former tenant farmer from Texas now working in California as a pea picker. Nipomo, California

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Ex-tenants, now day laborers, Ellis County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Ex-tenants, now day laborers, Ellis County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-tenants, now day laborers. Ellis County, Texas

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: This man was a tenant on the same farm for eighteen years... Ellis County, Texas, 1937

This man was a tenant on the same farm for eighteen years... Ellis County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
This man was a tenant on the same farm for eighteen years. He has six children. This year he was forced into status of day laborer on the same farm

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Thirteen-year old sharecropper boy near Americus, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Thirteen-year old sharecropper boy near Americus, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Thirteen-year old sharecropper boy near Americus, Georgia

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Small cotton farm, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Small cotton farm, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Small cotton farm, Kern County, California. The farmer keeps accounts. Each picker weighs his sack of cotton. In this case the sack weighs approximately fifty pounds

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Small cotton farm, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Small cotton farm, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Small cotton farm, Kern County, California. The farmer keeps accounts. Each picker weighs his sack of cotton. In this case the sack weighs approximately fifty pounds

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Small cotton farmer, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Small cotton farmer, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Small cotton farmer, Kern County, California. He leases the land, and pays 1/4 of the crop for rent, also pays the water bill (irrigation)

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Night meeting in the FSA office, Visalia, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Night meeting in the FSA office, Visalia, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Night meeting in the Farm Security Administration (FSA) office, Rural Rehabilitation Division, Visalia, Tulare County, California

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Sharecropper cultivating cotton with team, Near Shreveport, Louisiana, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Sharecropper cultivating cotton with team, Near Shreveport, Louisiana, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sharecropper cultivating cotton with team. This is a step above the primitive method. Near Shreveport, Louisiana

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: White sharecropper family, formerly mill workers, Hartwell, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

White sharecropper family, formerly mill workers, Hartwell, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
White sharecropper family, formerly mill workers in the Gastonia textile mills. When the mills closed down seven years ago, they came to this farm near Hartwell, Georgia

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Landless family of cotton sharecroppers, Macon County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Landless family of cotton sharecroppers, Macon County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
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)

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Tenant family with six children who are rural rehabilitation clients, Greene County, Georgia, 1937

Tenant family with six children who are rural rehabilitation clients, Greene County, Georgia, 1937
Tenant family with six children who are rural rehabilitation clients of the Farm Security Administration. Greene County, Georgia

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: The cotton sharecropper's unit, Greene County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

The cotton sharecropper's unit, Greene County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The cotton sharecropper's unit is one mule and the land he can cultivate with a one-horse plow. Greene County, Georgia

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Hoeing sugarcane on plantation in Louisiana, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Hoeing sugarcane on plantation in Louisiana, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hoeing sugarcane on plantation in Louisiana

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Farm Security clients during applications for aid... Stockton, California, 1938

Farm Security clients during applications for aid... Stockton, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security clients during applications for aid under Tenant Purchase Act. Stockton, California

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Cotton, Coahoma County, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton, Coahoma County, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton. Coahoma County, Mississippi

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: One of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas now settled at Hill House, Mississippi, 1936

One of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas now settled at Hill House, Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas now settled at Hill House, Mississippi. [J.M. Rees?]

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Back door of Texas tenant farmer's house, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Back door of Texas tenant farmer's house, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Back door of Texas tenant farmer's house. He has worked this farm for twenty years

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Night meeting in the FSA office, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Night meeting in the FSA office, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Night meeting in the Farm Security Administration office, Rural Rehabilitation Division, Visalia, Tulare County, California

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Night meeting in the FSA office, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Night meeting in the FSA office, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Night meeting in the Farm Security Administration office, Rural Rehabilitation Division, Visalia, Tulare County, California

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Night meeting in the FSA office, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Night meeting in the FSA office, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Night meeting in the Farm Security Administration office, Rural Rehabilitation Division, Visalia, Tulare County, California

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Night meeting in the FSA office, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Night meeting in the FSA office, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Night meeting in the Farm Security Administration office, Rural Rehabilitation Division, Visalia, Tulare County, California

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Night meeting in the FSA office, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Night meeting in the FSA office, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Night meeting in the Farm Security Administration office, Rural Rehabilitation Division, Visalia, Tulare County, California

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Night meeting in the Farm Security Administration office, Visalia, Tulare County, California, 1938

Night meeting in the Farm Security Administration office, Visalia, Tulare County, California, 1938
Night meeting in the Farm Security Administration office, Rural Rehabilitation Division, Visalia, Tulare County, California

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Cotton hoers, Memphis, Tennessee, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton hoers, Memphis, Tennessee, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
These cotton hoers work only seasonally on the plantations. The rest of the year they live on odd jobs and relief. Memphis, Tennessee

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Rail fence with poor barbed wire fence in foreground, Person County, North Carolina, 1939

Rail fence with poor barbed wire fence in foreground, Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Rail fence with poor barbed wire fence in foreground. Note telephone line. Person County, North Carolina

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga. 1941. Creator: Jack Delano

Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga. 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: FSA borrower? in a sugar-cane field, Puerto Rico, 1941 or 1942. Creator: Jack Delano

FSA borrower? in a sugar-cane field, Puerto Rico, 1941 or 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
FSA borrower? in a sugar-cane field, Puerto Rico

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: FSA - Tenant Purchase borrower? in front of their house, Puerto Rico, 1941 or 1942

FSA - Tenant Purchase borrower? in front of their house, Puerto Rico, 1941 or 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
FSA - Tenant Purchase borrower? in front of their house, Puerto Rico

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: FSA - Tenant Purchase borrower? in her garden, Puerto Rico, 1941 or 1942. Creator: Jack Delano

FSA - Tenant Purchase borrower? in her garden, Puerto Rico, 1941 or 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
FSA - Tenant Purchase borrower? in her garden, Puerto Rico

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: FSA - Tenant Purchase borrower? by his field, Puerto Rico, 1941 or 1942. Creator: Jack Delano

FSA - Tenant Purchase borrower? by his field, Puerto Rico, 1941 or 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
FSA - Tenant Purchase borrower? by his field, Puerto Rico

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: FSA - Tenant Purchase borrower? in their garden, by their house, Puerto Rico, 1941 or 1942

FSA - Tenant Purchase borrower? in their garden, by their house, Puerto Rico, 1941 or 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
FSA - Tenant Purchase borrower? in their garden, by their house, Puerto Rico

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: FSA borrower? in her garden, Puerto Rico, 1942 or 1941. Creator: Jack Delano

FSA borrower? in her garden, Puerto Rico, 1942 or 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
FSA borrower? in her garden, Puerto Rico

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: FSA emergency migratory labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

FSA emergency migratory labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Calipatria, Imperial Valley. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) emergency migratory labor camp. Left Oklahoma December 11, 1937 with husband and two children and son-in-law

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, northeast of Elma, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, northeast of Elma, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, northeast of Elma. Hand irrigation on small rented subsistence farm. Family have been on place for one year

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Migratory labor workers, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migratory labor workers, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory labor workers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Hand irrigation on small rented... farm, Grays Harbor County, Western Washington, 1939

Hand irrigation on small rented... farm, Grays Harbor County, Western Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, northeast of Elma. Hand irrigation on small rented subsistence farm. Family have been on place for one year

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Possibly: Bright cigarette tobacco growing in... near Upchurch, North Carolina, 1939

Possibly: Bright cigarette tobacco growing in... near Upchurch, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
[Untitled, possibly related to: Bright cigarette tobacco growing in Negro sharecroppers field. It grows in light sandy loam. Near Upchurch, North Carolina]

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Home of tenant, Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Home of tenant, Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of tenant, Hillside Farm. Note lathe fence to protect flowers in yard. They have no privy and haul water. Sacks hanging on line are used to haul tobacco to market. Person County, North Carolina

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Wife and child of... sharecropper... Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina, 1939

Wife and child of... sharecropper... Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Wife and child of young sharecropper in cornfield beside house. Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Young sharecropper and his first child, Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina, 1939

Young sharecropper and his first child, Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Young sharecropper and his first child. Hillside Farm. Person County, North Carolina

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Tobacco farmer, owner of 100 acres, Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tobacco farmer, owner of 100 acres, Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tobacco farmer, owner of 100 acres. Person County, North Carolina

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: White owner topping tobacco plant, Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

White owner topping tobacco plant, Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
White owner topping tobacco plant. Person County, North Carolina

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Possibly: Young sharecropper and his first child, Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina

Possibly: Young sharecropper and his first child, Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina
[Untitled, possibly related to: Young sharecropper and his first child. Hillside Farm. Person County, North Carolina]

Background imageTenant Farmer Collection: Wife and child of young sharecropper... Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina, 1939

Wife and child of young sharecropper... Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Wife and child of young sharecropper in cornfield beside house. Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina



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