Drawing water from well. Gees Bend, Alabama. April, 1937 Gee’s Bend, also known as Boykin, is a very poor tenant community in Alabama, United States of America lying at the edge of the Black Belt in Wilcox County, about thirty miles southwest of Selma. The name comes from a planter named Joseph Gee, the first white man to settle in Gee’s Bend.
Old man Moseley, now blind, Gees Bend, Alabama. 1939 Nolan Pettway’s children bringing home wagonload of fertilizer, Gees Bend, Alabama. Gertrude, churning on Isaiah Pettway’s porch,Gees Bend, Alabama. 1939 Jorena Pettway with some of theGees Bend livestock, Alabama.
Aunt Nellie Pettway, carrying wood from yard for fireplace. Gees Bend, Alabama.
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