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Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkansas
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Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations; Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations; Hoers carry their lunches; They return about 8 p.m. Mississippi.
Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkansas
Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkansas
Truckload of Mexican migrants returning from Mississippi where they had been picking cotton. Highway near Neches, Texas, Anderson County
A crew of 200 hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at a dollar a day. Many of these are ex-tenant farmers
Tractor on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. One man and a four-row cultivator does the work of eight men and eight mules under the one man-one mule system which is still common
Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. Tractor drivers are not allowed to do anything but drive tractors. Repairs are made by the mechanic at the plantation garage
Memphis, Tennessee. Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily during the season. Truck drivers are paid by the planters and serve as "runners" to recruit the men. Trucks leave at five o'clock in the morning for the Arkansas Delta plantations
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tennessee
memphis
shelby county
agricultural laborers
day laborers
seasonal labor
the miriam and ira d wallach division of art prints and photographs photography collection
farm security administration photographs
truck drivers
arkansas delta plantations
cotton hoers
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united states farm security administration sponsor
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ultra high resolution
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farm security administration
great depression
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classic photography
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new york public library
Date
01/06/1937 - 30/06/1937
Source
New York Public Library
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