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Cotton pickers improving their housing, from Santa Ana, Coleman County, Texas, 1940 (b/w photo)

Cotton pickers improving their housing, from Santa Ana, Coleman County, Texas, 1940 (b/w photo)
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IMAGE number
UIG3664873
Image title
Cotton pickers improving their housing, from Santa Ana, Coleman County, Texas, 1940 (b/w photo)
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Artist
Lange, Dorothea (1895-1965) / American
Location
National Archives, Washington D.C., USA
Medium
photograph
Date
1940 AD (C20th AD)
Image description

Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona. Cotton pickers improving their housing, from Santa Ana, Coleman County, Texas. Lost their farm in 1937. Worked on halves for one year, then went to day labor, driving tractor for .00 to .50 per day. Blames crop reduction program and change from teams to tractor operation of larger farms. "Never did pay a poll tax. Would have paid if I could". Arrived in Arizona Sept. 1940. Wife ill. Now picking cotton, camping in private camp, paying $.75 per week ground rent. Entire camp uses water and toilet of an abandoned nearby service station.

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Smith Collection/Gado/UIG / Bridgeman Images
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20th century / agriculture / 1940s / countryside / USA / North America / America (continent) / black and white / photo / Lange Dorothea (1895-1965) / photographer / female artist / artist / art / Great Depression / Farm Security Administration / New Deal / cotton pickers / 40s / food and drink industry / archival / photography / cotton / house / forties / photograph / housing / human interest / employment and labor / chandler / texas / chandler - arizona / arizona / 1940 / Photograph / Photography / Mzphoto

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