Tenant Farming and Sharecropping in the Post-Civil War South – Object #7

Home of Tenant Farmer, Arkansas

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<p>A wooden, one room shack sits on concrete blocks in the center of a dusty field.</p>

Tenant farmer’s small home in rural Arkansas, 1935

Questions:

Why do you think the photographer took this picture?

What can you infer about the people who live in this house?

What details do you notice in the photograph?

What kinds of work would the people who live here do?

Citations

United States Resettlement Administration, Shahn, Ben, photographer. Home of tenant farmer, Arkansas. October 1935. Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.