Childress County, Texas
Between 1935 and 1942, Lange worked for the photographic unit of the Farm Security Administration, photographing migrant workers, sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and other victims of the Depression, primarily in the South and West. In 1939 she and her husband, the historian Paul S. Taylor, published An American Exodus, a book documenting the migration of thousands of farmers and laborers from the dust bowls of the South to California's fertile valleys. They included this image of a farmhouse surrounded by machine-furrowed fields, with the caption: "Tractors replace not only mules, but people. They cultivate to the very door of the houses of those whom they replace."
Artwork Details
- Title: Childress County, Texas
- Artist: Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965)
- Date: 1938
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 25.9 x 33.0 cm (10 3/16 x 13 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
- Object Number: 1987.1100.88
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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