Farm Life

I have no real point to make here except, perhaps, that it’s an abomination to bind a man—any man—to a pickaxe handle and leave him to lie in the midday sun. In any case it doesn’t hurt to remember that these men, and these places, and these situations, all came before us. (Click on the pics for full resolution.)

Georgia 1895

South Carolina 1898

1903 (juvenile convicts, location unknown)

North Carolina 1910 (wagons used to transport and house convicts during road work assignments)

Georgia 1941

Louisiana 1955

Early 1900s

Delaware 1907

Early 1930s (location unknonw)

Bartow County, Georgia

Sing Sing, NY