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Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative, vicinity of Natchitoches, La. Three Negro children sitting on the porch of a house, August 1940

  

Boys fishing in a bayou, Schriever, Louisiana, June 1940

  

Burley tobacco is placed on sticks to wilt after cutting, before it is taken into the barn for drying and curing, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky, September 1940

  

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Mississippi, November 1939

  

Houses which have been condemned by the Board of Health but are still 

occupied by Negro migratory workers, Belle Glade, Florida, January 1941

  

International C30 truck transporting people who 

might be farm workers, southern US, ca. 1940

  

Negroes fishing in creek near cotton plantations 

outside Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, October 1939

  

Oat field, possibly Georgia, ca. 1940

  

 Taking Burley tobacco in from the fields, after it has been cut, to dry and cure 

in the barn, Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky, September 1940

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 Spectators picnicking before the Point to Point cup race, of the Maryland 

Hunt Club, Worthington Valley, near Glyndon, Maryland, May 1941

  

 The "water company" was formed by the people in abandoned mining town of Jere, West Virginia, after the coal company cut off all public services because they were abandoning the mine. The coal company used to charge one dollar and twenty-cove cents per month for water. The present "people's" water company charges its members twenty-five cents per month and makes money at that even when everyone can't pay dues. There are dividends of flour, sugar, lard, etc. The lock is necessary to keep people from other camps from stealing the water, which is very scarce. It's still necessary to change the lock about every four months. September 1938

  

 The Compton family taking sticks of tobacco out of the barn to the strip house. They are tenants, and the Negro owner lives in Mebane. This is part of a prosperous Negro settlement between Carr and Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina. September 1939

  

 The lake at Greenbelt, Maryland, September 1938

  

 The next "trip." Coal miners ready to go into the mine. 

Maidsville, West Virginia, September 1938

  

 The relief truck brings food supplies to abandoned mining town, Jere, West Virginia. The shack on right is used as community house for prayer and church meetings, September 1938

  

Wagon in center of town on Saturday. Jackson, 

Breathitt County, Kentucky, September 1940

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 Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena Island, South Carolina, 1939

  

 Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena Island, South Carolina, 1939

  

 Relatives and friends of the family of the deceased going home from a memeorial meeting in the mountains near Jackson, Kentucky, Aug 1940

  

 Rodney, Mississippi, August 1940

  

 Selling apples on main street on Saturday afternoon, 

Lexington, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, Oct 1939

  

 Spanish muskrat trappers' camp near Delacroix Island, Louisiana, 1940

  

Spanish trappers returning in their home-built pirogues (canoes) in the evening after having made the rounds of their muskrat traps. In the marshes near Delacroix Island, Louisiana, January 1940

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 Picking up and loading sweet potatoes of Mr. Foushee, owner-operator. Mr. Foushee is sixty-five; has nineteen children. One of his neighbors is helping them get a small share of potatoes. September 1939

 

 Prayer, or grace, at Sunday school picnic in abandoned 

mining town of Jere, West Virginia, September 1938

  

 Pressing juice from sugarcane to make molasses. Racine, West Virginia, September 1938

  

Pressing juice from sugarcane to make sorghum, Racine, West Virginia, September 1938

  

Racine, West Virginia. Making molasses is hot work, Sept 1938

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 Negro sharecropper and two wagehands shucking corn for the landlord, a white woman. On road to Cedar Grove, west of highway No. 14, Orange County, North Carolina, September 1939

  

 Playing checkers with bottle caps along highway between 

Charleston and Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, September 1938

  

 Political poster on sharecropper's house, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939

  

 Project family picking peas in their garden, Flint River Farms, Georgia, Spring 1939

  

Rolling store which goes from door to door selling groceries, hardware, drygoods, drugs, and a variety of household and farm supplies. Near Montezuma, Georgia, May 1939

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 Coal miner, his wife and one of their many children. Bertha Hill, West Virginia, September 1938

  

 Coal miner's wife and children (note child's legs) in back 

of their home. Bertha Hill, West Virginia, September 1938

  

 Coal miners waiting for the bus, eating ice cream suckers 

(popsicles). Pursglove, West Virginia, September 1938

  

 Midway and carnival, Shelby County Fair and 

Horse Show, Shelbyville, Kentucky, August 1940

  

 Migrant labor. Young packinghouse workers. Canal Point, Florida, February 1939

  

Migrant laborer's family, packing house workers. Canal Point, Florida, February 1939

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 Mountain children playing marbles after school in Breathitt County, Kentucky, September 1940

  

 Playtime in front of migratory packinghouse worker's camp. Child is from Tennessee and his parents are away most of the time. Belle Glade, Florida, January 1939

  

 Schoolchildren doing dance on May Day health day at 

Ashwood Plantation, South Carolina, Spring 1939

  

 Street in Negro section. Charleston, West Virginia, September 1938

  

WPA (Works Progress Administration) worker's children with their toys in their play yard. South Charleston, West Virginia, September 1938

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 "That's what you wanna see and that's what you will see and don't 

bring bashful with you 'cause he can't take it." An outdoor carnival comes 

once a year to the mining section. Granville, West Virginia, September 1938

 

 A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup. This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wess Cris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. They are straining it into a barrel, measured by a gallon can. September 1939

 

 Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. Playing checkers outside 

a service station on a Saturday afternoon, June 1939

  

 Group of sixth and seventh grade boys constructing poultry yard fence. 

Brooder was built in their shop class at school. Flint River Farms, Georgia, May 1939

  

People at the Shelby County Horse Show and Fair 

eating a picnic lunch. Shelbyville, Kentucky, August 1940

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 Child of migratory packinghouse workers. Belle Glade, Florida, 1939

  

 Child of packinghouse workers from Tennessee getting water from filthy canal. Drinking water must be hauled from packinghouse. Belle Glade, Florida, January 1939

  

 Children of defense workers playing outside of their homes in Sunset Village. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project. Radford, Virginia, October 1941

  

 Eleven year old child from Indiana. Said "I'm tired and my back hurts, but my mother keeps yellin at me because I'm so slow. We come down here in October, mostly because my father used to be a barber but didn't have any work and I needed the sun because I was undernourished and had lung trouble. The doctor in school told them to take me away." Her mother yelled at her again "Hurry and stop pokin, you can pick faster than that. Your father says to get a move on." Homestead, Florida, January 1939

 

 Migrant packinghouse workers' living quarters- tin and burlap shack in swamp cane by canal. From Tennessee, two families, eight children. Belle Glade, Florida, September 1939

  

Mountain children on steps of school in Breathitt County, Kentucky, September 1940