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Title
Twelve year old son of a cotton sharecropper near Cleveland, Mississippi
Names
United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lange, Dorothea (Photographer)
Collection

Farm Security Administration Photographs

Lange, Dorothea

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1937-06
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 017269-C c.2
Topics
Mississippi -- Cleveland
Mississippi -- Bolivar County
Rural children
Sharecroppers
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Title and date from Library of Congress.
Content: FSA Collection contains two copies of this photograph.
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: 23416
TMS Object Number: 017269-C c.2
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 4dee4e70-8850-0136-645b-07364cc4f9ce
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1937: Created
  • 2018: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Twelve year old son of a cotton sharecropper near Cleveland, Mississippi" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1937. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/46e3f420-8852-0136-6606-47184aebcfe7

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Twelve year old son of a cotton sharecropper near Cleveland, Mississippi" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/46e3f420-8852-0136-6606-47184aebcfe7

APA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1937). Twelve year old son of a cotton sharecropper near Cleveland, Mississippi Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/46e3f420-8852-0136-6606-47184aebcfe7

Wikipedia Citation

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Twelve year old son of a cotton sharecropper near Cleveland, Mississippi