The photograph offered here is a rare early print of one of Walker Evans’s distinctive views of the American South. It bears two stamps of the Resettlement Administration on its verso. In 1935, Evans was hired by Roy Stryker, head of the Information Division of the Resettlement Administration, a governmental agency of the New Deal, to document RA projects across the country. The RA was transferred in 1937 to the Farm Security Administration, with Stryker in charge of assigning photographers. This photograph pre-dates that transition.
