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Bud (William) Fields, Lilian Rogers Fields, Lily Fields – Historic Reproduction

Bud (William) Fields, Lilian Rogers Fields, Lily Fields, [1935 or 1936] — historic photograph
Bud (William) Fields, Lilian Rogers Fields, Lily Fields, [1935 or 1936]. Historic photograph from the Family Life collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic photograph of Bud (William) Fields, Lilian Rogers Fields, Lily Fields brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Bud (William) Fields, Lilian Rogers Fields, Lily Fields

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Bud (William) Fields, Lilian Rogers Fields, and Lily Fields appear together in this group portrait, presenting the household as a unit. The family were sharecroppers in Alabama's cotton country, tenants who worked land owned by others and paid their rent from the harvest, an arrangement that kept many rural families in debt through the 1930s. Walker Evans made the picture for the Resettlement Administration, the New Deal agency that documented rural poverty to build support for farm relief. The record dates it to 1935 or 1936, and it belongs to a series Evans made of the family's house and daily life.

Created / published[1935 or 1936]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1930-1940.Group portraits 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1930-1940.
NotesU.S. Resettlement Administration photographs. In album: Pictures of the house and family of an Alabama cotton sharecropper / photographs by Walker Evans, v. 1.
SubjectsFields, Bud--Family. Sharecroppers--Alabama--1930-1940. Families--Alabama--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,284 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218686

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