- His eyes say "Your soul is too small" - danilosierrac
Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama (LOC)
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, photographer.
Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama
[1935 or 1936]
1 negative : nitrate ; 8 x 10 inches or smaller.
Notes:
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture
Division. Washington Division; 1944.
Subjects:
Floyd Burroughs--Alabama
United States--Alabama--Hale County.
Format: Nitrate negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.00244
Call Number: LC-USF342- 008138-A
Comments and faves
Umberto Pini /2, Ross, BlueSun2600, Otto Ponto, and 291 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Cassies grandma (44 months ago | reply)
Movie star looks.
random letters (44 months ago | reply)
Seriously. So handsome.
Cassies grandma (44 months ago | reply)
www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/childlit/1930s/i ndex.html
Here are more pictures of the family.
fdecomite (44 months ago | reply)
great picture from a great book...
DanUneken (44 months ago | reply)
Eternal.
Shutterfool (44 months ago | reply)
Very handsome, and wonderful hair
bebe nonsuch (44 months ago | reply)
Fabulous.
Diskfac (44 months ago | reply)
brilliant portrait
kristinaSMITHphotography [deleted] (44 months ago | reply)
Library of Congress . . . thank you for making these photos visible and available!
8quart (44 months ago | reply)
proud hard worker
SFTed (44 months ago | reply)
Stunning!!
oliqccity (44 months ago | reply)
wow!
kithg (43 months ago | reply)
Cassies grandma, that picture of Lucille, his daughter, was used for a children's book recently:
www.amazon.com/SCHOLASTIC-BOOKS-TRADE-NEWBERR Y-WINNER/dp/....
It's first in the line of pictures at the site you posted. And thanks. They're fascinating.
Unrelated Patterns (43 months ago | reply)
such emotion.
paperform (43 months ago | reply)
i love this one
France D (42 months ago | reply)
anyone interested in this photo should read the accompanying book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"
cathyreilly66 (38 months ago | reply)
Every American should read "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."
constancetaylor (35 months ago | reply)
Love this guy, this is what I did with him. Title: "When You Are Old, I Hope You Dance"
Thank you.
tsienni (31 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Humanistic, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
8quart (31 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Respectable Images...., and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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8quart (31 months ago | reply)
thank you.....great photo..
Emhi (27 months ago | reply)
great photo..
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daveblume (16 months ago | reply)
This and the other photographs from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men are better appreciated when reading the words of James Agee....
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