Photos of Clarksdale

Several different Farm Security Administration photographers took photos in and around Clarksdale, a Delta town on the Sunflower River. The first seven below were made by Dorothea Lange, probably the best known of all those photographers. Four of them have captions that explicitly identify "Clarksdale" or "near Clarksdale" as their location. We assign the other 3 to Clarksdale as well, but that is an editorial interpretation. The next 6 photos (bottom two rows) were taken by Marion Post Wolcott, who made a number of trips to Mississippi to record the lives of the people, especially the black people, who lived and worked on the Delta; the captions for these 6 all explicitly mention Clarksdale. The town is also mentioned in The Mansion: Mink Snopes passes through it after leaving Parchman Penitentiary.