The photograph, the source, and the unknowns
After four captions that describe a condition, a caption that is a woman's name. Nothing about her circumstances is better than the families on the road. The difference is that Walker Evans wrote the name down.
- Archive caption
- Allie Mae Burroughs, wife of cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama
- Creator
- Walker Evans
- Date
- 1936-06
- Credit
- Library of Congress, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives
- Rights
- US Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information collection — LoC states the contents are in the public domain and free to use and reuse; work of the US federal government · Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Source record
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This link carries its own context.
Walker Evans. “Allie Mae Burroughs.” 1936-06. Library of Congress, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017762301/. Viewed via Nostalgia Museum artifact 755, reviewed 22 August 2026. https://getnostalgia.ai/museum/artifact/QcEYXx4d87xRlzMp/755
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