Agriculture

I purchased this at a going-out-of-business sale at an antique store in downtown Paducah, Kentucky. The original photo isn't much larger than a business card; no markings to indicate time or place. The women seem preoccupied with something off to the side. The men seem flat-out annoyed. View full size.

July 1937. "Thirteen-year old sharecropper boy near Americus, Georgia." Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange. View full size.

Grandma Moore and Jay Smiley picking cotton in OK around 1895. I don't know if this was their farm or if they picked cotton on a regular basis. But they seem to enjoy it. View full size.

July 1940. Berrien County, Michigan. "Migrant fruit workers from Arkansas." 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the FSA. View full size.

July 1940. "Near Shawboro, North Carolina. Group of Florida migrants on their way to Cranberry, New Jersey, to pick potatoes." Medium-format safety negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

More of my wife's family. This is her grandfather Richard Dostie Sr. with his chickens in Weeks Mills, Maine. She believes this was taken sometime during the 1950s. View full size.

September 28, 1910. White's Bog, Browns Mills, New Jersey. "Arnao family, 831 Catherine St., Rear #2. Whole family works. Jo is 3 years old. Boy is 6 years old, Girl is 9 years old. We found this family, children and all, working on Hichens farm, Cannon, Delaware, May 28th 1910, before school closed. This is the fourth week of school and the mother said they would be here for 15 or 20 days more. Witness, E.F. Brown." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.