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Ben Shahn: Sharecroppers Photographs

The tenant-farming families of the cotton South whose lives and homes Shahn documented in Arkansas.

Family of Negro sharecropper, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935

Family of Negro sharecropper, Little Rock, Arkansas

1935

Negro sharecropper and his wife, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935

Negro sharecropper and his wife, Pulaski County, Arkansas

1935

Family of Negro sharecropper, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935

Family of Negro sharecropper, Little Rock, Arkansas

1935

Rehabilitation client, Arkansas, 1935

Rehabilitation client, Arkansas

1935

Sharecroppers' children on Sunday, near Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935

Sharecroppers' children on Sunday, near Little Rock,…

1935

Sharecroppers' children on Sunday, near Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935

Sharecroppers' children on Sunday, near Little Rock,…

1935

Children of sharecroppers, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935

Children of sharecroppers, Little Rock, Arkansas

1935

Sharecropper on Sunday, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935

Sharecropper on Sunday, Little Rock, Arkansas

1935

Children of sharecropper, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935

Children of sharecropper, Little Rock, Arkansas

1935

Colored children of sharecroppers, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935

Colored children of sharecroppers, Little Rock, Arkansas

1935

Sharecropper family, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935

Sharecropper family, Little Rock, Arkansas

1935

Arkansas squatter's home, 1935

Arkansas squatter's home

1935

Squatter's camp, Route 70, Arkansas, 1935

Squatter's camp, Route 70, Arkansas

1935

Stove made out of old oil can, squatter's camp, Arkansas, 1935

Stove made out of old oil can, squatter's camp, Arkansas

1935

Family of Arkansas sharecropper, 1935

Family of Arkansas sharecropper

1935

Children of destitute Ozark mountaineer, Arkansas, 1935

Children of destitute Ozark mountaineer, Arkansas

1935

Rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas, 1935

Rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas

1935

Rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas, 1935

Rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas

1935

Family of rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas, 1935

Family of rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas

1935

Rehabilitation clients, Boone County, Arkansas, 1935

Rehabilitation clients, Boone County, Arkansas

1935

Rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas, 1935

Rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas

1935

Washing facilities in the Ozarks, Arkansas, 1935

Washing facilities in the Ozarks, Arkansas

1935

Family of rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas, 1935

Family of rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas

1935

Boone County, Arkansas. The family of a Resettlement Administration…, 1935

Boone County, Arkansas. The family of a Resettlement…

1935

Primitive chicken roost, carved out of hollow log, on farm of…, Arkansas, 1935

Primitive chicken roost, carved out of hollow log, on farm…

1935

Porch of home of Sam Nichols, rehabilitation client, Boone County,…, Arkansas, 1935

Porch of home of Sam Nichols, rehabilitation client, Boone…

1935

Sam Nichols, tenant farmer, Arkansas, 1935

Sam Nichols, tenant farmer, Arkansas

1935

Sam Nichols, tenant farmer, Boone County, Arkansas, 1935

Sam Nichols, tenant farmer, Boone County, Arkansas

1935

Children of Sam Nichols, Arkansas tenant farmer, 1935

Children of Sam Nichols, Arkansas tenant farmer

1935

Sharecropper, Pulaski County, Arkansas, "Mother Lane", 1935

Sharecropper, Pulaski County, Arkansas, "Mother Lane"

1935

Home of tenant farmer, Arkansas, 1935

Home of tenant farmer, Arkansas

1935

Wife of destitute mountaineer, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas, 1935

Wife of destitute mountaineer, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas

1935

Destitute tenant farmer's family, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas, 1935

Destitute tenant farmer's family, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas

1935

Outer wall detail, home of destitute mountaineer, Ozark Mountains,…, Arkansas, 1935

Outer wall detail, home of destitute mountaineer, Ozark…

1935

Home of destitute mountaineer, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas, 1935

Home of destitute mountaineer, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas

1935

Sharecropper's child, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935

Sharecropper's child, Pulaski County, Arkansas

1935

Ozark mountaineer, Arkansas, 1935

Ozark mountaineer, Arkansas

1935

Ozark children, Arkansas, 1935

Ozark children, Arkansas

1935

Ozark mountaineers, Arkansas, 1935

Ozark mountaineers, Arkansas

1935

Sharecropper's home, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935

Sharecropper's home, Pulaski County, Arkansas

1935

Wife and child of sharecropper, Arkansas, 1935

Wife and child of sharecropper, Arkansas

1935

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