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A group of men standing next to each other, Arkansas cotton pickers - early morning.

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The FSA (Farm Security Administration) is famous for its well known influential photography program that portrayed the challenges of rural poverty. Creating false perceptions of individuals (A prime example of situational manipulation), photographers were hired to report and document the plight of poor farmers. In 1935–44, eleven photographers would come to work on this project. They were: Arthur Rothstein, Theo Jung, Ben Shahn, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Carl Mydans, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano, John Vachon, and John Collier. In total, the black-and-white portion of the collection consists of about 175,000 black-and-white film negatives.

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arkansas african american men african american women cotton pickers united states schomburg center for research in black culture photographs and prints division farm security administration collection arkansas cotton pickers high resolution shahn ben 1898 1969 photographer united states resettlement administration sponsor gelatin silver prints cotton pickers farm security administration great depression photographs great depression history of arkansas arkansas free images ultra high resolution portrait photographs new york public library
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1898
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United States. Farm Security Administration, Sponsor
Shahn, Ben (1898-1969), Photographer
United States. Resettlement Administration, Sponsor
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America, 1930s

Photographs of Farm Security Administration
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New York Public Library
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http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/
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Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")

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Studio portrait of Arthur Alfonso Schomburg as a young child in Puerto Rico, age 4

Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for MR. J. P. Daws, Route 1, Shawnee. Johnnie picks 75 pounds, Carrie 100 pounds and Jim 150 to 200 pounds a day. Get $1.00 a hundred pounds. No School yet. Mother is a renter; moves about a great deal. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report. Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma

Cotton pickers boarding truck to take them to cotton fields, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

6-year old Warren Frakes. Mother said he picked 41 pounds yesterday "An I don't make him pick; he picked some last year." Has about 20 pounds in his bag. See 4574. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma. Lewis W. Hine

Norma Lawrence is 10 years old and picks from 100 to 150 pounds of cotton a day. Drags the sack which often hold 50 pounds or more before emptied. Lewis W. Hine. See 4569. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma

Interior of miner's shack. Scott's Run outside of Morgantown, West Virginia

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arkansas african american men african american women cotton pickers united states schomburg center for research in black culture photographs and prints division farm security administration collection arkansas cotton pickers high resolution shahn ben 1898 1969 photographer united states resettlement administration sponsor gelatin silver prints cotton pickers farm security administration great depression photographs great depression history of arkansas arkansas free images ultra high resolution portrait photographs new york public library