Transient cotton choppers on the road
date: label: Date made
content: 1936
name: label: photographer
content: Mydans, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: Migrant workers who led nomadic lifestyles, traveling from place to place as the seasons changed, were common across the United States in the early decades of the 20th century. In the 1930s, a combination of droughts, the Depression, and the increased mechanization of farming prompted a migration of small farmers and laborers from Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas to the West.
label: Description
content: While working for the F.S.A., Mydans encountered these migrant workers walking alongside a road carrying all of their belongings. Due to the small wages being offered in these areas, this couple was headed to another work location: <i>"Damned if we'll work for what they pay folks hereabouts."</i>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Arkansas, Crittenden county
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
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content: Carl Mydans
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Mydans, Carl. Carl Mydans, Photojournalist
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0228.009
label: accession number
content: 2005.0228
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0228.009
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 1/4 in x 20 in; 66.675 cm x 50.8 cm