Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains
This 1941 Jack Delano image depicts African American famers working land that they have rented during the Great Depression. This method was scene as a way to help poverty stricken farmers earn and income and learn useful, new, farming techniques. This color image reflects a smaller collection of Depression era photographs that were commission by the Farm Securities Administration.
Photographer: Jack Delano
Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains
White Plains, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941
Reproduction from color slide
LC-USF351-599
LC-DIG-fsac-1a33894
FSA/OWI Collection
Prints and Photographs Division (13)
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