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Photograph

African American Tenant Farmers Picking Cotton

Date: 1900
Description: Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand.
Photograph

Rural Telephone Operator

Date: 11 1954
Description: Henry Anderson runs a switchboard on his 90th birthday, with his smoking paraphernalia and a photograph of him at the switchboard on a table nearby.

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