Perthshire, Pace, Mound Bayou and Cleveland Photos

The photographs here are the work of three different photographers working for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. They were taken in or near 4 different small towns in the Mississippi Delta. The passage at the end of Faulkner's "Delta Autumn" on the intermingling of racial and ethnic groups in the Delta mentions "Chinese and African and Aryan and Jew," but does not mention 'Latin' or 'Hispanic.' However, the first 4 photos here make it clear that although no Mexican agricultural workers appear in Faulkner's fictions, they were part of the region's labor force.