Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily during the season, Memphis, Tennessee, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily during the season, Memphis, Tennessee, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

2-896-744 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Memphis, Tennessee. Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily during the season. Truck drivers are paid by the planters and serve as "runners" to recruit the men. Trucks leave at five o'clock in the morning for the Arkansas Delta plantations. Hoers are paid one dollar a day.


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Creator
  1. Dorothea Lange, attributed to: American: Photographer, artist, photojournalist

Medium
  1. Photograph

Geographic Hierarchy

World North and Central America United States Tennessee Shelby Memphis

  1. 35 08 00 N , 090 02 00 W

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Trade & Industry Occupations

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Trade & Industry Agriculture & Fishing

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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4960x3815
File Size : 18,479kb


Aliases

  1. 2017770197
  1. 1010001717
  1. 2-896-744
  1. 2017770197
  1. 2896744

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