Dorothea Lange. Former Texas tenant farmers displaced by power farming. Hardeman, County, Texas, May 1937

(From left: O.B. Welch, Cephus Montgomery, Raymond Turpen, Vernon Scott, D.W. Welch, and Walter Ballard.) All displaced tenant farmers, the oldest thirty-three. All on WPA. They support an average of four persons each on $22.80 a month. "I can count twenty-three farmers in the west half of this county that have had to leave the farms to give three men more land." [From Dorothea Lange and Paul S. Taylor, American Exodus]