Tenant Farmers Hoeing a Cotton Field

Tenant farmers in Eutaw, Greene County, hoe their cotton fields in July 1936. The image was taken by famed photographer Dorothea Lange for the federal Farm Security Administration, during the Great Depression.

Tenant farmers hoeing a cotton field in Alabama, FSA photograph
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Tenant farmers hoeing a cotton field in Alabama, FSA photograph