Source: Agee, James, and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: the American Classic, in Words and Pictures, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

All photos are presented courtesy of the Farm Security Administration, US Department of Agriculture. They can be found online at the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection,using the reference numbers listed on each page.

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Walker Evans, The work boots of Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama, 1936.

LC-USF342-T01-008145-A DLC

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LC-USF342-T01-008175-A DLC

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