
The photo caption explains that men would congregate each morning, hoping for seasonal work on cotton plantations, but that jobs were scarce due to "reduced cotton acreage."
Taken by Dorothea Lange in 1938. [American Memory link]
Showcasing some of the 160,000 images taken between 1935 and 1944 by government-hired photographers. (If you were to look at 100 of them per day, every day, you'd need more than four years to view them all).