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Son of sharecropper family at work in the cotton near Chesnee, South Carolina

Son of sharecropper family at work in the cotton near Chesnee, South C...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The family of Mr. Leroy Dunn, chopping cotton in a rented field near White Plains, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941.

The family of Mr. Leroy Dunn, chopping cotton in a rented field near W...

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Dust bowl farmer driving tractor with young son, near Cland, New Mexico. "I left cotton growing east of Wichita Falls to come out here to get to grow wheat. (The superior status of wheat over cotton farmers is traditional.) I guess I've made 1000 miles right up and down this field in the dust when you couldn't see that car on the road, and had to use headlights. This soil is the best there is anywhere, but it sure does blow when it's right., If you stay in the house and wait for the dust to stop you won't make a crop. But I"ve seen only one year since I came here in 1920 that I didn't make something"

Dust bowl farmer driving tractor with young son, near Cland, New Mexic...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

James Walker and family.

James Walker and family.

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

Cotton bales grown by free Negroes, collected for transport to England, [Tuskegee City, Alabama.]

Cotton bales grown by free Negroes, collected for transport to England...

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

Cotton farmers near Oil City, Oklahoma, day laborers. Carter County, Oklahoma

Cotton farmers near Oil City, Oklahoma, day laborers. Carter County, O...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Small cotton farmer stays at the wagon and keeps account of the weight of each sack brought in by pickers from the field. Kern County, California

Small cotton farmer stays at the wagon and keeps account of the weight...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Louis Thompson and family.

Louis Thompson and family.

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gathering cotton in Georgia.

Gathering cotton in Georgia.

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More