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			The New Deal Farm Security Administration in the Lower Mississippi Delta: Reading the Photographic Record by Jane Adams D. Gorton
	Russell Lee took a series of 19 photographs of one black family as they were preparing to move from Transylvania in January 1939. It is not obvious that the disparate photos were taken in the same homestead, and of the same people, because the images are scattered throughout his coverage of Transylvania. When ordered by their call numbers, they are separated by other photos from Transylvania, as well as photos from Laurel, Mississippi, Chicot Farms, Arkansas, Jerome, Arkansas, Westlaco, Texas. When studied carefully, these photos can be seen to be photos of one unnamed family. (The contiguous call numbers are: USF33-011924-M2 through USF33-011924-M4; USF33-011929-M1 through USF33-011929-3; USF33-011937-M4 through USF33-011937-5; USF34-031931-D, -03933-D through -03939-D. View them in call number order). When viewed in the context of the resisted removal from Transylvania Plantation, they tell quite a different narrative than they do when viewed singly. The captions and call numbers of the photos are listed left to right, top to bottom. The number in parentheses indicate the photographs in call-number sequence. 1. (10) Children of Negro sharecropper who will be resettled at Transylvania Project. Louisiana. LC-USF34-031931-D 2. (12) Children of Negro sharecropper who will be resettled on Transylvania Project. Louisiana. LC-USF34-031934-D 3. (11) Fireplace in Negro sharecropper's cabin. Will be resettled on Transylvania Project. Louisiana. LC-USF34-031933-D 4. (15) Negro mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper. Transylvania, Louisiana. LC-USF34-031938-D [7] 5. (16) Mantel in Negro sharecropper's home. Transylvania, Louisiana. LC-USF34-031939-D 6. (18) Negro child playing phonograph in cabin home. Transylvania Project, Louisiana. LC-USF34-031941-D 7. (13) Washing clothes at rear of sharecropper's cabin. Transylvania, Louisiana. LC-USF34-031935-D 8. (14) Sharecropper's cabin. Transylvania, Louisiana. LC-USF34-031936-D 9. (17) Type of window in Negro sharecropper's cabin. No glass or screen. Transylvania Project,.LC-USF34-031940-D 10. (19) Corner of kitchen of Negro sharecropper's cabin. Transylvania Project, Louisiana. LC-USF34-031942-D 11. (8) Negro sharecropper with wire which he has rolled up after taking down fences on his rented farm, Transylvania Project, Louisiana. LC-USF33-011937-M4 12. (9) untitled LC-USF33-011937-M5 13. (6) Negro sharecropper and child who will be resettled, Transylvania Project, Louisiana. LC-USF33-011929-M2 14. (5) Negro sharecropper and child who will be resettled, Transylvania Project, Louisiana. LC-USF33-011929-M1 15. (4) Wife and children of Negro sharecropper who will be resettled at Transylvania project, Louisiana. LC-USF33-011927-M5 16. (7) Detail of clothes of children of Negro sharecropper who will be resettled on Transylvania Project, Louisiana. Note the cloth shoelaces. LC-USF33- 011929-M3 17. (1) Children of Negro sharecropper pumping water. Family will be resettled at Transylvania Project, Louisiana. LC-USF33-011924-M2 18. (2) Children of Negro sharecropper pumping water. Family will be resettled at Transylvania Project, Louisiana. LC-USF33-011924-M3 19. (3) untitled LC-USF33-011924-M4
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