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Author Agee, James, 1909-1955.

Title Cotton tenants : three families / James Agee ; [photographs by] Walker Evans ; edited by John Summers ; preface by Adam Haslett.

Publication Info. Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2013]
©2013

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  976.1 AG32    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  976.1 AGEE    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  976.1062 AGEE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  976.1 AGE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  976.1 AGEE    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  976.14 AGEE    Check Shelf
Description 224 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Contents Business -- Shelter -- Food -- Clothing -- Work -- Picking season -- Education -- Leisure -- Health -- Appendix 1. On Negroes -- Appendix 2. Landowners.
Summary On 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.
Subject Agee, James, 1909-1955 -- Travel -- Alabama.
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975 -- Travel -- Alabama.
Cotton farmers -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
Tenant farmers -- Alabama -- Hale County -- Social conditions.
Farm tenancy -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
Cotton farmers -- Alabama -- Hale County -- Social conditions.
Hale County (Ala.) -- Rural conditions.
Alabama -- Rural conditions.
Added Author Evans, Walker, 1903-1975.
Summers, John, 1971-
ISBN 9781612192123: $24.95
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