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The Good Earth: 1937

June 1937. "Wife of Texas tenant farmer. The wide lands of the Texas Panhandle are typically operated by white tenant farmers, i.e., those who possess teams and tools and some managerial capacity." Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1937. "Wife of Texas tenant farmer. The wide lands of the Texas Panhandle are typically operated by white tenant farmers, i.e., those who possess teams and tools and some managerial capacity." Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

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Spas, gyms and tanning parlors

This hard-working industrious woman would need a very convincing argument to pay a membership fee to any of those establishments.

Sodbuster

I see what looks like a mule team near the horizon. I guess the woman is finishing the job that they started. Sometimes when I see a mule I wonder how the first guy decided to try mating a horse with a donkey to get that result. Or was it just an accidental discovery. Since mules cannot reproduce, horses and donkeys had to get together a lot in the old days.

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What they mean by the phrase "dirt farmer"

Bonnet and Hoe

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Up at dawn

Looks like she has a long day ahead of her.

Plains Jane

This is a remarkable image. A solitary figure (Dad and team notwithstanding) in a forbidding landscape, with an agricultural implement only slightly more sophisticated than a stick. It helps illumine the enormity of the task which literally thousands of our forebears faced and leaves one wondering, "How did they do it?"

No Relation

Is there a Mrs. Grim Reaper?

Field Fashion

I believe a scythe would be the more appropriate accessory for this
outfit. I guess I'll have to wait for October.

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