In 1936, documentary photographer Walker Evans travelled to Alabama to record the life of sharecroppers and the effects of the Great Depression on Americans. The Fields family, shown here, worked a farm in Hale County.
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In 1936, documentary photographer Walker Evans travelled to Alabama to record the life of sharecroppers and the effects of the Great Depression on Americans. The Fields family, shown here, worked a farm in Hale County.