Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet [sic], Texas. Aged seventy; seventeen years on the same farm. Is to be "tractored out" at the end of 1938. One son has been tractored out and has been on WPA (Work Projects Administration) for two years

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Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet [sic], Texas. Aged seventy; seventeen years on the same farm. Is to be "tractored out" at the end of 1938. One son has been tractored out and has been on WPA (Work Projects Administration) for two years
Names
United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lange, Dorothea (Photographer)
Collection

Farm Security Administration Photographs

Lange, Dorothea

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1938-06
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 018175-E
Topics
Texas -- Goodlett
Texas -- Hardeman County
Tenant farmers
Farm mechanization
Rural poor
Genres
Photographs
Portraits
Notes
Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Title and date from Library of Congress.
Content: Caption continues: Another son was tractored out in 1937 ... "What are my boys going to do? It's not a question of what they're going to do. It's a question of what they're going to have to do., They're not any up there in Congress but what are big landowners and they're going to see that the program is in their interest. As long as the government is paying the landowner more to let the land out than they make by renting it, they won't rent it."
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: 23740
TMS Object Number: 018175-E
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e4edb040-8cf9-0136-d9bd-35ce766b504f
Rights Statement
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet [sic], Texas. Aged seventy; seventeen years on the same farm. Is to be "tractored out" at the end of 1938. One son has been tractored out and has been on WPA (Work Projects Administration) for two years" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1938. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/60eb19c0-8cfc-0136-8f8d-4543c2a6a737

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet [sic], Texas. Aged seventy; seventeen years on the same farm. Is to be "tractored out" at the end of 1938. One son has been tractored out and has been on WPA (Work Projects Administration) for two years" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 25, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/60eb19c0-8cfc-0136-8f8d-4543c2a6a737

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1938). Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet [sic], Texas. Aged seventy; seventeen years on the same farm. Is to be "tractored out" at the end of 1938. One son has been tractored out and has been on WPA (Work Projects Administration) for two years Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/60eb19c0-8cfc-0136-8f8d-4543c2a6a737

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Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet [sic], Texas. Aged seventy; seventeen years on the same farm. Is to be "tractored out" at the end of 1938. One son has been tractored out and has been on WPA (Work Projects Administration) for two years