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Thursday, 2 September 2010

Jack Delano: Saturday Afternoon in Greensboro, Georgia


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Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film

Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film

Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film

Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film

Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film

Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film

Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film



Photos by Jack Delano, May 1941 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
at 02:43

2 comments:

Bowie Hagan said...

Tom,

My grandfather's family on my mother's side were farmers in
Greensboro, from the 1830's. They began to grow cotton after the civil
war. When the boll weavil struck in the twenties the family lost the
land. According to my father, Emmet(my grandfather) sd that after the boll
weavil destroyed the cotton crop, there was simply "no money". My
grandfather eventually bought it back, in the 1950's, after he
returned from service in the war. Pine trees are growing there now- I
have been recently to visit- the land is hard- clay, very rocky.

Best,
Bowie

3 September 2010 at 09:23
TC said...

Bowie,

Grateful for your testimony, record and reminder of the heritage of all those decades of precarious survival on this unforgiving land.

3 September 2010 at 09:46

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