Cattle farmer Joe Givhan poses with an Angus steer on October 13, 1927. Cattle became an important agricultural commodity in Alabama during the early twentieth century after the arrival of the boll weevil devastated the cotton industry.

Cattle farmer Joe Givhan poses with an Angus steer on October 13, 1927. Cattle became an important agricultural commodity in Alabama during the early twentieth century after the arrival of the boll weevil devastated the cotton industry.