A selection of 13 F.S.A. photographs depicting rural life in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida. 1938-40; printed 1960-70. Silver prints, the images measuring 184x241 mm; 7¼x9½ inches, and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with a Library of Congress stamp and the RA number in pencil on verso.
The titles are: Spring planting in a project garden. Coffee County, Alabama, April 1939 * Natchez, Mississippi, August 1940 * Jorena Pettway sorting peas inside her smokehouse. She still has many fruits and vegetables which she canned last year. Gee's Bend, Alabama, May 1939 * Bayou Bourbeaux plantation by Bayou Bourbeaux farmstead association, a cooperative established through the cooperation of FSA, August 1940 * Negro day laborers coming in trucks from the fields after cotton picking to be paid off at plantation store. Mileston, Mississippi Delta. They are being brought in from nearby towns daily during the peak of the season. Mississippi, October 1939 * Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Mulatto riding to crossroads store to get supplies after heavy rains, June 1940 * One of the mulattoes who works on the John Henry Plantation and is very skilled in woodwork, weaving and crafts. Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, July 1940 * A Negro going fishing in the evening at Lake Providence, Louisiana, June 1940 * Burst bales of cotton on street in front of stock barn and warehouse. Montgomery, Alabama, March 1939 * Heavy yield of grapefruit with excess fruit on ground. Near Lakeland, Florida, March 1939 * Stacks of lumber at sawmill. Ashepoo, South Carolina, December 1938 * Juanita Coleman helps during recreation time for adult class. In the church she teaches them to read and write and to discuss any interests and problems. Gees Bend, Alabama, May (?) 1939 * Rows of young cotton around tenant houses. Mississippi Delta, May 1940 * Stacks of lumber at sawmill. Ashepoo, South Carolina, December 1938
