Power Farming Displaces Tenants, Childress County, Texas
Dorothea Lange · 1938
Why it's great
An empty farmhouse stands in a wide field of plowed furrows in Texas in 1938, a farm where tractors had taken the place of families who once worked the land as tenant farmers. Dorothea Lange photographed it for the government to show how the Depression and new machines pushed families off the land.
🏛️ Part of history
The Great Depression (1929–1939) — An empty farmhouse stands in a wide field of plowed furrows in Texas in 1938, a farm where tractors had taken the place of families who once worked the land as tenant farmers.
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Dorothea Lange was an American photographer born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895. She moved to San Francisco, and during the Great Depression worked for the government photographing the lives of poor farm families, creating the famous Migrant Mother. She died in San Francisco in 1965.
