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The cotton sharecropper's unit is one mule and the land he can cultivate with a one-horse plow. Greene County, Georgia

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Title

The cotton sharecropper's unit is one mule and the land he can cultivate with a one-horse plow. Greene County, Georgia

Collection

Farm Security Administration Photographs
Lange, Dorothea

Names

United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lange, Dorothea (Photographer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1937-07

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 017966-C

Subjects

Georgia -- Greene County
Sharecroppers
Cotton

Genres

Photographs

Notes

Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Title and date from Library of Congress.

Physical Description

Gelatin silver prints
Extent: Print Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Identifiers

TMS ID: 23654
TMS Object Number: 017966-C
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): df354e20-8cf8-0136-a02d-0f2ce995c5d9

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "The cotton sharecropper's unit is one mule and the land he can cultivate with a one-horse plow. Greene County, Georgia" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/df354e20-8cf8-0136-a02d-0f2ce995c5d9

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. The cotton sharecropper's unit is one mule and the land he can cultivate with a one-horse plow. Greene County, Georgia Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/df354e20-8cf8-0136-a02d-0f2ce995c5d9

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "The cotton sharecropper's unit is one mule and the land he can cultivate with a one-horse plow. Greene County, Georgia" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 6, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/df354e20-8cf8-0136-a02d-0f2ce995c5d9

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