Negro house, Tupelo, Mississippi, 1936 – Historic Reproduction
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Negro house, Tupelo, Mississippi, 1936 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Negro house, Tupelo, Mississippi, 1936
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Tupelo, in northeast Mississippi, is the setting, and the catalog keeps the period title "Negro house" as it was filed in 1936. The picture comes from the Farm Security Administration files, a New Deal documentary project that began under the Resettlement Administration and recorded rural life and housing across the South during the Depression. Its subject is the dwelling itself, a modest structure in a town surrounded by farmland. Viewers often study such images for the construction, materials and yard spaces they show about working families of that era.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print ; 7 1/4 x 9 1/8 in. (18.2 x 23.2 cm.) |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Farm Security Administration Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | African Americans--Structures--Mississippi--Tupelo--1930-1940. Dwellings--Mississippi--Tupelo--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,447 × 1,165 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215936 |
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