Russell Lee, Picking Cotton, Lake Dick Project, 1938

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 

  • Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
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  • Troy, Alabama
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  • Jack Delano, Group of Florida migrants on their way to Cranberry, New Jersey, to pick potatoes. Near Shawboro, North Carolina, 1940
  • Dapne, Alabama
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  • Alexandria, Louisiana
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  • Russell Lee, Picking Cotton, Lake Dick Project, 1938
  • Chicago, Indiana
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  • Akron, Ohio
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  • Jack Delano, Migrants with their luggage preparing to leave Belcross, North Carolina for another job at Onley, Virginia, 1940
  • Mobile, Alabama
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  • Palestine, Texas
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  • Gordon Parks, Washington, D.C. A family which lives in the Southwest area, 1942
  • Fort Gaines, Georgia
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  • Selma, Alabama
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  • Arthur Rothstein, Slums, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1938
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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  • Newbern, Alabama
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  • Russell Lee, During the services at storefront Baptist church on Easter Sunday. Chicago, Illinois, 1941
  • Natchez, Mississippi
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  • Little Rock, Arkansas
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  • Jack Delano, Interior of Negro rural house. Greene County, Georgia, 1941
  • Greenwood, Mississippi
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  • Marion Post Wolcott, Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, 1939

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