Gee's Bend Farm, 1939

The log home of a tenant-farming family in Gee's Bend, Wilcox County, photographed by Farm Security Administration photographer Marion Post Wolcott in May 1939.

Log cabin and wooden outbuilding at a farm in Gee’s Bend, with a log wagon in the foreground, laundry hanging on a clothesline, and several children gathered in the yard.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

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Sharecropping and Tenant Farming in Alabama

Sharecropping and Tenant Farming in Alabama

Log cabin and wooden outbuilding at a farm in Gee’s Bend, with a log wagon in the foreground, laundry hanging on a clothesline, and several children gathered in the yard.