I can make my crop money for next year in a month, said John Fields, tenant living on a small farm seven miles out of town. Farm labor in this section, until 1940, received from sixty cents to one dollar a day, working from sunup to sundown.

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I can make my crop money for next year in a month, said John Fields, tenant living on a small farm seven miles out of town. Farm labor in this section, until 1940, received from sixty cents to one dollar a day, working from sunup to sundown.
Names
United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Collection

Farm Security Administration Photographs

Miscellaneous

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1941-09
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 014630-E-B
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Title and date from Library of Congress. Photographer identified as "Stoney" on verso; probably referring to documentary film maker and FSA employee George C. Stoney.
Date: 1941, September
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: Print Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
TMS ID: 53370
TMS Object Number: 014630-E-B
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 5148b110-dd1f-013e-f360-0242ac110002
Rights Statement
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "I can make my crop money for next year in a month, said John Fields, tenant living on a small farm seven miles out of town. Farm labor in this section, until 1940, received from sixty cents to one dollar a day, working from sunup to sundown." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1941. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/520debd0-dd1f-013e-16a2-0242ac110002

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "I can make my crop money for next year in a month, said John Fields, tenant living on a small farm seven miles out of town. Farm labor in this section, until 1940, received from sixty cents to one dollar a day, working from sunup to sundown." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 15, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/520debd0-dd1f-013e-16a2-0242ac110002

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1941). I can make my crop money for next year in a month, said John Fields, tenant living on a small farm seven miles out of town. Farm labor in this section, until 1940, received from sixty cents to one dollar a day, working from sunup to sundown. Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/520debd0-dd1f-013e-16a2-0242ac110002

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I can make my crop money for next year in a month, said John Fields, tenant living on a small farm seven miles out of town. Farm labor in this section, until 1940, received from sixty cents to one dollar a day, working from sunup to sundown.