Public domain
San Augustine, Texas. Farmer with the truck in which he carries farm people from twenty miles distance to town on Saturdays. He has been doing this since gas rationing began
From the collection of Library of Congress. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Credit lineSan Augustine, Texas. Farmer with the truck in which he carries farm people from twenty miles distance to town on Saturdays. He has been doing this since gas rationing began. 1943-01-01. Vachon, John. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
Similar works
Untitled photo, possibly related to: San Augustine, Texas. Truck which carries farm people from a distance of twenty miles to town on Saturdays
San Augustine, Texas. Truck which carries farm people from a distance of twenty miles to town on Saturdays
Untitled photo, possibly related to: Cotton pickers boarding truck which will take them to the fields, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Untitled photo, possibly related to: Cotton pickers boarding truck which will take them to the fields, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Memphis, Tennessee. Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily during the season. Truck drivers are paid by the planters and serve as "runners" to recruit the men. Trucks leave at five o'clock in the morning for the Arkansas Delta plantations.
Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhe