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Author Agee, James, 1909-1955.

Title Let us now praise famous men : three tenant families / James Agee, Walker Evans.

Imprint Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead FD  917.61 Ag32l 2001    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st Mariner books ed.
Description xi, 416 pages, 61 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note "A Mariner book."
"Featuring striking photographs newly reproduced from archival negatives"--Cover.
Summary Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.
Contents All Over Alabama -- On the Porch: 1: July 1936 -- Late Sunday Morning -- At the Forks -- Near a Church -- pt. 1. A Country Letter -- Colon -- pt. 2. Some Findings and Comment -- Money -- Shelter -- On the Porch: 2 -- Clothing -- Education -- Work -- Intermission: Conversation in the Lobby -- pt. 3. Inductions -- Shady Grove Alabama -- Two Images -- Title Statement -- On the Porch: 3.
Subject Agee, James, 1909-1955 -- Travel -- Alabama.
Agee, James, 1909-1955 (OCoLC)fst00033540
Farm tenancy -- Alabama -- History.
Alabama -- Rural conditions.
Alabama -- Description and travel.
Alabama -- Social conditions.
Farm tenancy. (OCoLC)fst00921264
Rural conditions. (OCoLC)fst01101474
Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
Alabama. (OCoLC)fst01204694
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Evans, Walker, 1903-1975.
Added Title Three tenant families
ISBN 0395957710
9780395957714
0618127496 (pbk.)
9780618127498 (pbk.)

 
    
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