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This photo was taken in Laurel, Mississippi during April 1911. It shows the Yelverton Family. Father, mother and eight children lived in a six-room house. They moved into thi house in 1909 from a farm 50 miles away. Presumably they were share croppers. The seem rather like a family straight out of a Faukner novel. Father and the four oldest boys worked in the Laurel Cotton Mills. None of the children attended the school. Schooling was not compulsory in Mississippi at the time. This was a general pattern in the South, but Mississippi in the Deep South was one of the most reactinary states and most reluctant to adequayely fund public schools. The boys wear clothing of three style according with their age. The older boys wear trousers with suspenders, shirts, black long stockings and shoes. The middle age boys wear overalls and shirts and go barefoot. The younger boys wear knickers pants with suspenders and shirts. They also go barefoot.
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