Dorothea Lange: Tobacco Photographs
13 Dorothea Lange photographs of tobacco, from the Library of Congress archive.
Loading cured tobacco for market. Georgia
1937
Douglas, Georgia. Wife of sharecropper in town to sell…
1938
Each farmer follows his tobacco in the warehouse to learn…
1938
Douglas, Georgia. South Georgia tobacco sharecropper during…
1938
Douglas, Georgia. South Georgia tobacco sharecropper in…
1938
Near Tifton, Georgia. Tobacco farms, like Southern cotton…
1938
Colored tobacco sharecroppers home near Tifton, Georgia
1938
Douglas, Georgia. Farmers at tobacco auction. Common…
1938
As the auctioneer knocks down the last bid on each basket…
1938
Near Douglas, Georgia. Sharecroppers grade the cured leaves…
1938
Douglas, Georgia. The "golden leaf," already graded by the…
1938
Tobacco sharecropper's home near Douglas, Georgia
1938
Near Tifton, Georgia. The sharecropper harvest is over in…
1938