Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, shooting hawks which have been carrying away his chickens, Pie Town, New Mexico. Ca. October, 1940.
Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, shooting hawks which have been carrying away his chickens, Pie Town, New Mexico. Ca. October, 1940.
Migratory Mexican field worker’s home on the edge of a frozen pea field. Imperial Valley, California. Ca. March, 1937.
Scenes like this were common place in California, and the rest of the United States during the Depression, farmers and field workers would make shelter out of anything they could find.
The bad at a square dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma. Ca. 1939 or 1940.
Jack Whinery, homesteader, with his wife and the youngest of his five children, Pie Town, New Mexico. Ca. September, 1940.
Cowboy on horse, Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, Mew Mexico. Ca. September, 1939.
Cooperation in irrigation well. Mr. Johnson and Mr. Wright, FSA (Farm Security Administration) clients, Syracuse, Kansas. Ca. August, 1939.
Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga. Ca. June, 1941.
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Douglas, Georgia. South Georgia tobacco sharecropper during the tobacco auction. In order to eke out a living members of the sharecropper families in recent years have begun to migrate to Florida after cotton or tobacco harvest to work in fruits or vegetables. Ca. July, 1938.