Agricultural Cooperative Collection

Cabins at the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cabins at the Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi. [Porches with mosquito screens]

Cabins at the Delta cooperative farms, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cabins at the Delta cooperative farms. Hillhouse, Mississippi. Screen windows and porches are uncommon in cotton cabins

One of Delta cooperative farmsteads after a year of operation, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of Delta cooperative farmsteads after a year of operation. Hillhouse, Mississippi. [Porch with mosquito screens]

FSA cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Working in the community garden, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Working in the community garden which supplies fresh vegetables to twenty-eight families at the Delta cooperative farms. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Delta cooperative farm cabins and cotton, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Delta cooperative farm cabins and cotton. Hillhouse, Mississippi, after one year of operation

Planting corn in the community garden, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Planting corn in the community garden which supplies fresh vegetables to twenty-eight families. Delta cooperative farms. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Self-help cooperative, members of the community, Burbank, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Self-help cooperative. Members of the community. Burbank, California

Loading milk at the self-help cooperative dairy, near Santa Ana, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Loading milk at the self-help cooperative dairy which is being taken over by the Resettlement Administration. Near Santa Ana, California

Self-help cooperative dairy, near Santa Ana, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The self-help cooperative dairy which is being taken over by the Resettlement Administration, near Santa Ana, California. This dairy supplies milk to the Civilian Conservation Corps camps nearby

Self-help cooperative dairy, near Santa Ana, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Self-help cooperative dairy. This dairy is being taken over by the Resettlement Administration. Near Santa Ana, California

Heads of families on the Mineral King cooperative farm, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Heads of families on the Mineral King cooperative farm. Ten families are now established on this 500 acre ranch to be operated as a unit. (Farm Security Administration) Tulare County, California

Delta cooperative farms in 1938, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Delta cooperative farms in 1938. Hillhouse, Mississippi

One of the farmers at the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of the farmers at the Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Newly erected community house at the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Newly erected community house at the Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi. This building houses the library, school, clinic and meeting rooms

The cooperative store at the Delta cooperative farm near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The cooperative store at the Delta cooperative farm near Clarksdale, Mississippi

The poultry unit of the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The poultry unit of the Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Hillhouse, Mississippi Delta cooperative farm, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hillhouse, Mississippi Delta cooperative farm

Sam Franklin, graduate of Union Theological Seminary... Hill House, Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sam Franklin, graduate of Union Theological Seminary and director of the Hill House cooperative experiment at Hill House, Mississippi

FSA cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Ex-sharecroppers from Arkansas...cooperative experiment at Hill House, Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-sharecroppers from Arkansas established on Sherwood Eddy's cooperative experiment at Hill House, Mississippi

Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Lake Dick, Arkansas. Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Houses at Lake Dick cooperative, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Houses at Lake Dick cooperative, Arkansas

Self-help cooperative, Burbank, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Self-help cooperative, Burbank, California. Organized August 1934. Now has seventy-six active members and is fairly successful. Have applied to the Resettlement Administration for a loan

Self-help cooperative, Burbank, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Self-help cooperative, Burbank, California. Supplies food, vegetables and milk to members

Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Visalia (vicinity), Tulare County, California. The Farm Security Administration. Miners's cooperative farm. Ten families have been established on the old ranch of 500 acres

Board of directors of the Mineral King Farm Association, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
These three men comprise the board of directors of the Mineral King Farm Association, Tulare County, California. They were elected by their own group to direct this farm unit

Ten families established by the FSA on the... Tulare County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ten families have been established by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, an old ranch of 500 acres, which they will operate as a farm unit, raising cotton

Ten families established by the FSA on the... Tulare County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ten families have been established by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, an old ranch of 500 acres, which they will operate as a farm unit, raising cotton

Ten families established by the FSA on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, Tulare County, CA, 1938
Visalia (vicinity), Tulare County, California. The Farm Security Administration. Miners's cooperative farm. Ten families have been established on the old ranch of 500 acres

Ten families established by the FSA on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, Tulare County, CA, 1938
Ten families have been established by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, an old ranch of 500 acres, which they will operate as a farm unit, raising cotton

Ten families established by the FSA on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, Tulare County, CA, 1938
Ten families have been established by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, an old ranch of 500 acres, which they will operate as a farm unit, raising cotton

Ten families established by the FSA on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, Tulare County, CA, 1938
Ten families have been established by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, an old ranch of 500 acres, which they will operate as a farm unit, raising cotton

All-crop harvesting, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester

All-crop harvesting, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester

All-crop harvesting, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester

Member of the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Member of the Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Member of the Delta cooperative farm at Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Member of the Delta cooperative farm at Hillhouse, Mississippi

Bayou Bourbeau plantation operated by Bayou Bourbeau Farmstead Assoc... Natchitoches, La. 1940
Bayou Bourbeau plantation operated by Bayou Bourbeau Farmstead Association, a cooperative established through the cooperation of FSA [Farm Security Administration], Natchitoches, Louisiana

Mineral King Cooperative Association, FSA, Tulare County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tulare County, California. Mineral King Cooperative Association, Farm Security Administration (FSA). View of the dairy farm and herd

New homes for families on the Mineral King cooperative farms, Tulare County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tulare County, California. New homes for families on the Mineral King cooperative farms. This farm is situated on the site of an old ranch

Mr. Botner with bull which he owns co-operatively... Nyssa Heights, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939
Mr. Botner with bull which he owns co-operatively with a neighbor under FSA (Farm Security Administration) co-op agreement. Nyssa Heights, Malheur County, Oregon

Here are the farmers who have bought machinery... West Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Here are the farmers who have bought machinery cooperatively. Photographed just before they go to dinner on the Miller farm where they are working. West Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon

Here are the farmers who have bought machin... West Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon, 1939 Creator: Dorothea Lange
Here are the farmers who have bought machinery cooperatively. Photographed just before they go to dinner on the Miller farm where they are working. West Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon

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Agricultural cooperatives have long played a crucial role in supporting farmers and their communities. These cooperatives, as captured by renowned photographers like Marion Post Wolcott and Dorothea Lange, showcase the power of collective efforts in agriculture. In Bayou Bourbeau plantation, operated by the Bayou Bourbeau Farmstead Association in Natchitoches, Louisiana in 1940, we witness a community coming together to cultivate the land and sustain their livelihoods. The unity displayed here is mirrored in Mineral King Cooperative Association in Tulare County, California during 1939. Dorothea Lange's lens captures not only the cooperative spirit but also new homes being built for families on these farms, and is evident that cooperation extends beyond just working the land; it encompasses building a better future for everyone involved. The concept of shared ownership is further exemplified through Mr. Botner with his bull owned co-operatively at Nyssa Heights, Malheur County, Oregon in 1939. This image highlights how pooling resources can benefit individual farmers while fostering a sense of camaraderie within the agricultural community. Machinery plays an essential role on any farm, and West Carlton farmers from Yamhill County, Oregon recognized this when they collectively invested in equipment during 1939. By sharing machinery costs and maintenance responsibilities among themselves, these farmers demonstrate how collaboration can lead to increased efficiency and productivity. Dairy farming also thrives under cooperative models as seen at FSA Mineral King Cooperative Association in Tulare County, California during 1939. Through joint efforts and shared resources within this association captured by Dorothea Lange's lens once again - dairy farmers are able to maintain healthy herds while ensuring economic stability for all members involved. Even beyond American borders lies evidence of successful agricultural cooperatives such as those found within USSR Agriculture during the early 20th century. A poster inviting comrades to join collective farms showcases the global impact of cooperative farming practices.