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Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
A Negro Farmer Plowing His Field Of Four Acres
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

A Negro Farmer Plowing His Field Of Four Acres

Artist Jack Delano (American, 1914 - 1997)
CultureAmerican
Date1940
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 7 1/4 × 9 3/8 in. (18.4 × 23.8 cm)
Overall, Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund
Object number84.78.109
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is one of a series of 132 FSA photographs of Virginia; all are gelatin silver prints.

ProvenancePurchased prints from Library of Congress (negatives on file at Library of Congress,) 1984.Exhibition History"Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, May 3 - June 16, 1985. Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson. _Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs_. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA. 1985: p. 79.
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