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Reading the Photographic Record
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Jane Adams
D. Gorton
| Mennonites had more recently come into the area as land levelers and bought homes in the project. But racial (and other) tensions were far more evident than we had seen in the numerous other places we had visited in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri. There was clearly a story here, one we could not unravel in the short time available to us. But here was visual evidence that amplified the cryptic documents in FDR’s files.
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Negro mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper, Transylvania, Louisiana. Russell Lee, Jan 1939. LC-USF34- 031938-D
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It’s hard to know what to make of Lee’s photographs. Do they show shiftless tenants with little attachment to the land? Proud farmers moving unwillingly? |
 Shed for mules and horses on sharecropper's place near Transylvania Project. Louisiana. Russell Lee, Jan. 1939. LC-USF34- 031887-D
Chicken shed on former sharecropper's farm. Transylvania, Louisiana. Russell Lee, Jan. 1939. LC-USF34- 031909-D
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Sharecropper's cabin. Transylvania, Louisiana. Russell Lee. Jan. 1939. LC-USF34- 031936-D
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Wife and children of Negro sharecropper who will be resettled at Transylvania Project, Louisiana. Russell Lee. Jan. 1939. LC-USF33-011927-M5
Negro sharecropper and child who will be resettled, Transylvania Project, Louisiana. Russell Lee, Jan. 1939. LC-USF33-011929-M2 ? |
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