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Cotton tenants: three families
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Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, c2013.
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224 pages : ill. ; 20 cm.
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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.

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English
ISBN:
9781612192123, 1612192122

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"Photographs by Walker Evans are reprinted from the two-volume album Photographs of Cotton Sharecropper Families, held by the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division"--T.p. verso.
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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.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Agee, J., Haslett, A., Evans, W., & Summers, J. (2013). Cotton tenants: three families. Brooklyn, NY, Melville House.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

James Agee et al.. 2013. Cotton Tenants: Three Families. Brooklyn, NY, Melville House.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

James Agee et al., Cotton Tenants: Three Families. Brooklyn, NY, Melville House, 2013.

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Agee, James, et al. Cotton Tenants: Three Families. Brooklyn, NY, Melville House, 2013.

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