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Homestead Page 2

 

Former barber from Indiana, picking beans in Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050951-E DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Supply house and seed company in Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050887-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Negro quarters for migrant agricultural workers. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050861-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Negro boy, nine years old, picking beans. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050676-E DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Store and "juke joint." Negro section, Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050591-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Lunch hour for Negro tomato pickers. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050588-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Negro tomato pickers during lunch hour. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050578-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Negro quarters, mostly transient agricultural workers. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050483-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Negro tomato pickers during lunch hour. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050466-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Lunch hour for Negro tomato pickers. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050462-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Main street, showing barber shop in Negro section. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050971-E DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migrant workers grading tomatoes in the packinghouse. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050889-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Wrapping and packing tomatoes in a Homestead packinghouse. Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050886-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Wrapping and packing tomatoes in a Homestead packinghouse. Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050885-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Privy in Negro transient agricultural workers quarters. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050860-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migrant laborers from New Jersey picking beans near Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050744-E DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Some new and better Negro quarters near Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050593-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Some new and better Negro quarters near Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050497-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migrant laborers from Missouri picking beans. Homestead, Florida. Majority are Negroes.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-051074-E DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Negro transient agricultural laborers quarters. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050880-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Former railroad man from Tennessee who was picking beans in Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050996-E DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migrant laborer washing and selecting tomatoes in the packinghouse. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050888-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migrant laborers washing and selecting tomatoes in the packinghouse. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050884-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Privy alongside irrigation and drainage ditch for agricultural workers. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050879-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

White foreman and helpers in tomato field during lunch hour. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050626-E DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Dumping newly-picked crates of tomatoes to be hauled away by truck. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050990-E DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Dumping newly-picked crates of tomatoes to be hauled away by truck. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050988-E DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migrant agricultural workers from Tennessee, Carolina, Alabama, working in packinghouses in Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050871-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Negro transient agricultural laborers quarters. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-T01-050867-D DLC (b&w film dup. neg.)

 

Migrant agricultural laborer from Tennessee who formerly worked on the railroad. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050864-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Many Negroes must continue to live in many condemned houses in Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050489-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Mother and daughter from Indiana, picking beans. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050953-E DLC (b&w film neg.)
LC-USZ62-125989 DLC (b&w film copy neg. from file print)

 

Negro transient agricultural laborers quarters. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050866-D DLC (b&w film neg.)
LC-USZ62-107714 DLC (b&w film copy neg. from file print)
LC-USZ62-116085 DLC (b&w film copy neg. from file print)

 

Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Feb.?

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF331-030491-M5 DLC (b&w film copy neg. from file print)

 

Nine year old Negro boy receiving twenty-cents for hamper of beans he picked for contract farmer. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050780-E DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Woman from New Jersey picking beans. Hampers are very heavy and must be moved along as one picks. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-051050-E DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Negro tomato picker washing dirt off his hands with tomato at lunch hour. He had no lunch with him. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050465-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Old shack, formerly a field house, lived in by migrant agricultural laborer from Tennessee who formerly worked on the railroad. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050865-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migrant agricultural workers from Tennessee, Carolina, Alabama, Georgia living in overcrowded boardinghouse and working in packinghouses in
Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050872-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migrant agricultural worker from Tennessee, formerly a railroad man, shelling dried beans he got in the fields for supper. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050873-D DLC (b&w film neg.)
LC-USZ62-116084 DLC (b&w film copy neg. from file print)

 

Migratory labor digging potatoes, season very bad, market poor, left potatoes in ground as long as possible, hoping for rise in prices. Often not worth
digging, left to rot in ground. Near Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF33-030457-M4 DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migratory labor digging potatoes, season very bad, market poor, left potatoes in ground as long as possible, hoping for rise in prices. Often not worth
digging, left to rot in ground. Near Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Mar.?


REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF33-030457-M3 DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migratory labor digging potatoes, season very bad, market poor, left potatoes in ground as long as possible, hoping for rise in prices. Often not worth
digging, left to rot in ground. Near Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Mar.?

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF33-030456-M5 DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migratory labor digging potatoes, season very bad, market poor, left potatoes in ground as long as possible, hoping for rise in prices. Often not worth
digging, left to rot in ground. Near Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Mar.?

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF33-030456-M4 DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migratory labor digging potatoes, season very bad, market poor, left potatoes in ground as long as possible, hoping for rise in prices. Often not worth
digging, left to rot in ground. Near Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Mar.?

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF33-030456-M1 DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migrant agricultural worker from Tennessee, formerly a railroad man, eating dinner in his shack, an old tool house. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USZ62-103448 DLC (b&w film copy neg. from file print)
LC-USF34-050874-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Old goat house. The front part cleaned out and converted into living quarters for migrant agricultural workers (white boys) employed in
packinghouses in Homestead, Florida. Four boys live in the one room and do their own cooking. The goats still stay in the rear.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050883-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migrant laborer from Ohio, picking beans. He said "This is some profession for a man isn't it? Freud and Adler should come around here and study
living conditions and they'd have a lot more to say about the reasons for human beings' behavior. Four of us guys live in a palace in these Glades."
Near Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050746-E DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Eleven year old child from Indiana. Said "I'm tired and my back hurts, but my mother keeps yellin at me because I'm so slow. We come down here in
October, mostly because my father used to be a barber but didn't have any work and I needed the sun because I was undernourished and had lung
trouble. The doctor in school told them to take me away." Her mother yelled at her again "Hurry and stop pokin, you can pick faster than that. Your
father says to get a move on." Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050977-E DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

A tourist "attraction." Aztec wishing well and "sausage" tree near Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050495-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Former railroad man from Tennessee who was picking beans in Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050991-E DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migrant laborers pick tomatoes in fields near Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Sept.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050494-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migrant vegetable worker sleeping in tomato field during his lunch hour near Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Sept.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050629-E DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Every available building is used for rooming houses in overcrowded Negro section. Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 Jan.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050507-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

 

Migrant vegetable picker "washing" his hands with tomato in field during his lunch hour near Homestead, Florida.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1938 Dec.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USF34-050704-E DLC (b&w film neg.)