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The caption of the photographer Eleven-year-old Homer Hunt harvesting berries. Says he has made $10 picking and has been out of school for a few […]

Tobacco Bag Stringing: MRS. EUGENIA ALLEN; married, with three children and four grandchildren living with her; 51 years old; husband is 59. They live in […]

1937 in Georgia… Caption: Family of cotton sharecroppers. Georgia’s Macon County…

At La Delta Project, farm supervisor Eugene T. Martin is talking with George Campbell about the cotton crop while Campbell is applying soda nitrate on […]

Along the front steps of her home, a young girl is standing with her dog. Albert J. Ewing, a traveling photographer, captured this image sometime […]

The photo was taken in 1840 and features Hannah Stilley. Why does this matter? She was the first person to be photographed when they were […]

A Family Portrait at Joe Hughes’ House In the heart of Tennessee’s Carter County, the late 19th century was a period of significant transition and […]

Tobacco Bag Stringing: KEMP, MRS. BESSIE, Hunting Creek, N.C., age 25, husband 30; three young children. INCOME: Her husband is employed at a local furniture […]

Art Simplot and family outside their home in the Wisconsin town of Black River Falls. A Year of Transformation and Resilience 1937 was a year […]

Capturing the Past: Conversations with a Couple from the Turn of the Century In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the art of photography […]

Tobacco Bag Stringing: JOHNSON, MRS. FLOSSIE, a colored woman who resides in Reidsville, North Carolina, with her seven children after being separated from her husband. […]

picture shows four grownups on a lawn enjoying a game of croquet. A dog is sitting in the yard, with a frame home visible in […]