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Photograph albums for Let us now praise famous men
Title: Photograph albums for Let us now praise famous men / photographs by Walker Evans.
Other Title: Pictures of the house and family of an Alabama cotton sharecropper.
House and the family of Frank Tengle near Moundville, Hale County, Ala.
Creator(s): Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, photographer
Related Names:
Agee, James, 1909-1955. Let us now praise famous men
Date Created/Published: 1935-1936.
Summary: Photographs show the families, farms, and houses of three sharecroppers (Floyd Burroughs, William Edward Fields, and Frank Tengle) in Hale County and Perry County, Alabama. Includes portraits, details of rooms and belongings, cotton, activities such as washing clothes, stores in the vicinity, meeting house, and Sunday singing.
Notes:
Arrangement: Photographs are for the most part arranged in albums sequentially by U.S. Resettlement Administration negative number (i.e., LC-USF342-RA-8138).
Walker Evans, a preeminent photo documentarian of the New Deal, took leave from the Farm Security Administration to work with writer James Agee on a project originally intended for Fortune magazine about the devastating effects of economic conditions on a typical family of white tenant farmers. These albums are the first draft of the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, published in 1941.
Digitized images of each album page (made from color transparencies) and associated identifying information are available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
Photographs bear printed captions.
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Transfer; Office of War Information; 1944.
Published in: Photographic memory: the album in the age of photography / Verna Posever Curtis. New York, NY : Aperture Foundation, 2011, p. 208.
Forms part of: U.S. Resettlement Administration photos.
Subjects:
Burroughs, Floyd--Family--1930-1940.
Fields, William Edward--Family--1930-1940.
Tengle, Frank--Family--1930-1940.
Sharecroppers--Alabama--1930-1940.
Families--Alabama--1930-1940.
Cotton--Alabama--1930-1940.
Interiors--Alabama--1930-1940.
Gelatin silver prints--1930-1940.
Photograph albums--1930-1940.
Portrait photographs--1930-1940.
Bookmark /2003656560/
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