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_bA535 2013
082 0 4 _a976.1 AGE
100 1 _aAgee, James
_d, 1909-1955
245 1 0 _aCotton tenants
_b: three families
_c/ James Agee ; [photographs by] Walker Evans ; edited by John Summers ; preface by Adam Haslett
260 _aBrooklyn, NY
_b: Melville House
_c, c2013
300 _a224 p.
_b: illus.
_c; 20 cm.
505 0 _aBusiness -- Shelter -- Food -- Clothing -- Work -- Picking season -- Education -- Leisure -- Health -- Appendix 1. On Negroes -- Appendix 2. Landowners.
520 _aOn assignment for "Fortune" magazine in 1936, Agee and Evans set out to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Published for the first time, Agee's original dispatch (accompanied by 25 of Evans' historic photographs) is an unsparing record of three families at a desperate time.
600 1 7 _aAgee, James
_d, 1909-1955
600 1 7 _aEvans, Walker
_d, 1903-1975
650 0 _aCotton farmers
_z--Alabama
_x--History
_y--20th Century
650 0 _aTenant farmers
_z--Alabama
_z--Hale County
_x--Social conditions
650 0 _aFarm tenancy
650 7 _aSocial situations
651 0 _aHale County (AL)
_x--Rural conditions
651 0 _aAlabama
700 1 _aEvans, Walker
_d, 1903-1975
700 1 _aSummers, John
_d, 1971 -
942 _cMO
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