The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar and fifty cents a day as long as there is daylight. Aldridge Plantation, [near Leland] Mississippi

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Title
The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar and fifty cents a day as long as there is daylight. Aldridge Plantation, [near Leland] Mississippi
Names
United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lange, Dorothea (Photographer)
Collection

Farm Security Administration Photographs

Lange, Dorothea

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1937-06
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 017218-E c.2
Topics
Mississippi -- Leland
Plantations
African American agricultural laborers
Agricultural laborers
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Title and date from Library of Congress.
Content: FSA Collection contains three copies of this photograph.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: Print Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
TMS ID: 23394
TMS Object Number: 017218-E c.2
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e7e8bc00-884f-0136-bec7-654ee3a7d4df
Rights Statement
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  • 2018: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar and fifty cents a day as long as there is daylight. Aldridge Plantation, [near Leland] Mississippi" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1937. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2f6e8f10-8852-0136-e82e-6169f71e2664

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar and fifty cents a day as long as there is daylight. Aldridge Plantation, [near Leland] Mississippi" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2f6e8f10-8852-0136-e82e-6169f71e2664

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1937). The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar and fifty cents a day as long as there is daylight. Aldridge Plantation, [near Leland] Mississippi Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2f6e8f10-8852-0136-e82e-6169f71e2664

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The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar and fifty cents a day as long as there is daylight. Aldridge Plantation, [near Leland] Mississippi