Ben Shahn

Photos taken in Arkansas.

 Picking cotton on Alexander plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935

 Sharecropper's child, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935

 Sharecroppers in Marked Tree, Arkansas, 1935

 Sharecroppers' children on Sunday, near Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935

["no more write on this house" - I love it!]

 

 Washing facilities in the Ozarks, Arkansas, 1935

 Wife and child of sharecropper, Arkansas, 1935

Wife of sharecropper, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935

Ben Shahn - Arkansas

 A destitute family, Ozark Mountains area, 1935

 Community canning, Dyess Colony, Arkansas, 1935

 Blind street musician, West Memphis, Arkansas, 1935

 Cotton pickers at 6:30 a.m., Alexander plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935

 Ozark children, Arkansas, 1935

 Inhabitants of Marked Tree, Arkansas, 1935

Cotton pickers ready for day's work, 6:30 a.m., Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935

Ben Shahn

 Homeless children, Natchez, Mississippi, 1935

 Medicine show, Huntingdon, Tennessee, 1935

 Scene in lower Natchez, Mississippi, 1935

 Street musicians, Maynardville, Tennessee, 1935

 Sunday school picnic, Penderlea Homesteads, North Carolina, 1937

 Sunday school, Penderlea Homesteads, North Carolina, 1937

 Three Negro children, Natchez, Mississippi, 1935

 Two women walking along street, Natchez, Mississippi, 1935

Women doing needlework, 1937

Ben Shahn - Ohio

 Repairing Route 40, central Ohio, 1938

 Sideshow, county fair, central Ohio, 1938

 Spectators at county fair in central Ohio, 1938

 Spectators at county fair in central Ohio, 1938

 Spectators at county fair in central Ohio, 1938

 The Thaxton family, near Mechanicsburg, Ohio, 1938

 Visiting World War Veterans' homecoming and carnival. London, Ohio, 1938

 Washing up before dinner during wheat harvest, central Ohio, 1938

 Weight-pulling contest, county fair, central Ohio, 1938

 Wheat harvest in the field, feeding the thresher, central Ohio, 1938

William A. Swift, once a farmer, now a resident of Circleville's "Hooverville." 

When he returned from the war he went West. 1938

Ben Shahn - Louisiana

 Amite City, Louisiana, 1935

 Children of unemployed trapper, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 1935

Creole girls, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 1935
 

 Levee workers, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 1935

[black guys working, white guys watching...]
 

 Street scene, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1935

 Sugarcane worker, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 1935

Trische family, tenant farmers, Plaquemines Parish, Louisianas, 1935

Ben Shahn - West Virginia

Photos taken by FSA photographer Ben Shahn in West Virginia.

 Doped singer, "Love oh, love, oh keerless love," 

Scotts Run, West Virginia, 1935

 Omar, West Virginia, 1935

 Payoff at Pursglove Mine, Scotts Run, West Virginia, 1935

 Pursglove Mine, Scotts Run, West Virginia, 1935

 Red House, West Virginia, schoolchildren, 1935

 Scotts Run, West Virginia. Negro family living in Moose Hall, 1935

 Striking miners, Scotts Run, West Virginia, 1935

Watching a football game, Star City, West Virginia, 1935

Ben Shahn - Ohio

Photos taken by Ben Shahn in Ohio, in 1938.

 Along main street, Lancaster, Ohio

 At the Ashville July 4th celebration, Ashville, Ohio

 Dairy show horses at county fair, central Ohio

 Family on relief, Lancaster, Ohio

 Farmpeople at fair in central Ohio

 Lineup for pony race at county fair, central Ohio

 Main street, Lancaster, Ohio

[is the guy on the right surreptitiously giving us the finger??]

 Members of threshing crew, central Ohio

 Mr. Thaxton, farmer, near Mechanicsburg, Ohio, feeding his pigs

 Preparing dinner for hands at wheat harvest time, central Ohio

Relief clients, central Ohio