Burroughs and Tengle Children

The Burroughs and the Tengles were two of the Hale County sharecropper families featured in James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Pictured here are some of the Burroughs and Tengle children at the Burroughs home.

Floyd Burroughs and Tengle children in Hale County, Alabama, photographed by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration, summer 1936
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Floyd Burroughs and Tengle children in Hale County, Alabama, photographed by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration, summer 1936