House of ex-tenant farmer now on relief. Ellis County, Texas

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This man was a tenant on the same farm for eighteen years. He has six children. This year he was forced into status of day laborer on the same farm. The farm owner employed twenty-three tenant families last year. This year, the same acreage, using tractors, requires seven families. Ellis County, Texas

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The cotton lands of Ellis County, Texas, are well adapted to tractor farming but the houses of the farmer tenants stand empty

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Child of former tenant farmer, now a day laborer. Ellis County, Texas

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Child of former tenant farmer, now a day laborer. Ellis County, Texas

1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.