DESCRIPTION:

Image: 1936 photograph Walker Evans took of an Alabama tenant farmer, Floyd Burroughs, published in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. In the second image, Burroughs and his family, in his Sunday best surrounded by his wife, sister-in-law, and four clean, nicely dressed children.

CONTRIBUTOR: Thomas Dublin

DATE ADDED: 2010-08-07 21:34:43

COLLECTION: Historical Essay Part II

ITEM TYPE: Still Image

CITATION: Walker Evans, in Miner's Son, Miners' Photographer:, Item #456, https://chnm.gmu.edu/harvan/items/show/456 (accessed February 1, 2022).

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Publisher
Creator
Walker Evans
Source
Library of Congress
Subject
Walker Evans photographs
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