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The Waters of Memory (1947)
The Oak Arch (1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 5: Migrants were advanced passage on the railroads, paid for by northern industry. Northern industry was to be repaid by the migrants out of their future wages. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 7: The migrant, whose life had been rural and nurtured by the earth, was now moving to urban life dependent on industrial machinery. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 11: Food had doubled in price because of the war. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 19: There had always been discrimination. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 33: Letters from relatives in the North told of the better life there. (between 1940 and 1941)
The Migration Series, Panel no. 53: African American, long-time residents of northern cities met the migrants with aloofness and disdain. (between 1940 and 1941)
Approaching Storm (between 1919 and 1920)
City Suburbs (ca. 1914)
Harlem Valley, Winter (ca. 1921)
New England Birches (not dated)
Path of Sunlight, New Mexico (not dated)