Farming has always been important in America, especially many decades ago. After all, without farmers, we wouldn’t survive. The following 13 photos reflect what farming was like in Alabama during the 1930s-40s.

1. An Alabama tenant farmer and his children working in a cotton field. (Anniston, Alabama - 1936)
Photogrammar/Dorothea Lange
2. Lucille Burroughs in the cotton fields. (Hale County, Alabama -1936)
Photogrammar/Walker Evans
3. This farmer's corn is almost dried out. (Eutaw, Alabama - 1936)
Photogrammar/Dorothea Lange
4. An Alabama plow girl. (Eutaw, Alabama - 1936)
Photogrammar/Dorothea Lange
5. A farmer plowing at Gee's Bend. (Wilcox County, Alabama - 1937)
Photogrammar/Arthur Rothstein
6. Joe Handley standing outside his barn with his beautiful horses. (Walker County, Alabama - 1937)
Photogrammar/Arthur Rothstein

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7. An Alabama homesteader with a few of the baby chicks he's been raising. (Bankhead Farms, Alabama - 1937)
Photogrammar/Arthur Rothstein
8. An Alabama sharecropper plowing a field. (Montgomery County, Alabama - 1937)
Photogrammar/Arthur Rothstein
9. This repaired barn and two mares belong to George Johnson, a tenant purchase client. (Pike County, Alabama - 1939)
Photogrammar/Marion Post Wolcott
10. Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson and their hogs. (Pike County, Alabama - 1939)
Photogrammar/Marion Post Wolcott
11. Part of George Cowley's family looking over their pigs. (Pike County, Alabama - 1939)
Photogrammar/Marion Post Wolcott
12. Mr. Tillery's wife and children with a few of their chickens and pigs. (Pike County, Alabama - 1939)
Photogrammar/Marion Post Wolcott
13. A herd of cattle grazing in the Black Prairie regions. The cabin in the background belongs to a sharecropper. (Hale County, Alabama - 1941)
Photogrammar/Jack Delano

Judging from these photos, do you believe farming was much different many years ago compared to today? Share your thoughts below!

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