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Jibaros planting tobacco in the hills. Puerto Rico

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Tobacco field of Floyd H. Moore. Lancaster County, Pennyslvania

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Douglas, Georgia. Wife of sharecropper in town to sell their crop at the tobacco auction

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Near Douglas, Georgia. "You don't have to worriate so much and you've got time to raise somp'n to eat." The program to eliminate the risk and uncertainty of a one-crop system meets the approval of this sharecropper. She sits on the porch and sorts tobacco

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Children of tobacco worker fetching water from the creek. Puerto Rico

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Perique tobacco in process of ageing near Lutcher, Louisiana

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Douglas, Georgia. South Georgia tobacco sharecroppers. Fords are beginning to appear among the tobacco sharecroppers. They can bring the crop to the auction at the warehouse, take flour and groceries back to the farm and even carry the boys to Florida for a season's work in the fruit

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Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop. They will sell this year's crop for about nine hundred dollars, of which they receive one-half

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Workers in a tobacco field. The straw shed in the background is a hurricane shelter. Puerto Rico

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Churchtown (vicinity), Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Tobacco hanging in a barn

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As the auctioneer knocks down the last bid on each basket of tobacco in the warehouse, the price is immediately recorded, and the farmers go to the "money box" to get their money. Douglas, Georgia

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Farmland and tobacco barns purchased for rehabilitation client near Raleigh, North Carolina

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Eroded tobacco slope with Jibaro house. Puerto Rico

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Cidra (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Jubaro tobacco workers leaving home for day labor in the fields

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A couple of men standing next to each other in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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Old "Jibaro," patriarch of a clan of twenty-one tobacco hill farmers. Puerto Rico

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Old Jibaro, patriarch of a clan of twenty-one tobacco hillfarmers. Puerto Rico

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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Tobacco hanging in the tobacco barn on the Enos Royer farm

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Jibaro tobacco worker. Near Cidra, Puerto Rico

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Douglas, Georgia. Wife of sharecropper in town to sell their crop at the tobacco auction

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New England hurricane. Tobacco barn in Connecticut

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Hoeing a tobacco slope. No matter how steep, all of the hills in the picture are under cultivation. Puerto Rico

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Cultivating tobacco on one of the Irwinville Farms, Georgia

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Tobacco. Florence County, South Carolina

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Old tobacco barn. Irwin County, Georgia

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Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop. They will sell this year's crop for about nine hundred dollars, of which they receive one-half

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Douglas, Georgia. Farmers at tobacco auction. Common question is "What will it bring this year?"

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Brands of tobacco smoked by harvest hands. Ohio

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Tobacco sharecropper's home near Douglas, Georgia

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Mr. Foster in his tobacco field. Irwinville Farms, Georgia

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Old Jibaro, patriarch of a clan of twenty-one tobacco hillfarmers. Puerto Rico

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Douglas, Georgia. Farmers at tobacco auction. Common question is "What will it bring this year?"

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Colored tobacco sharecroppers home near Tifton, Georgia

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Each farmer follows his tobacco in the warehouse to learn what price it brings at auction. Douglas, Georgia

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Near Douglas, Georgia. "You don't have to worriate so much and you've got time to raise somp'n to eat." The program to eliminate the risk and uncertainty of a one-crop system meets the approval of this sharecropper. She sits on the porch and sorts tobacco

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Jibaro woman in tobacco field. Puerto Rico

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Barrels of perique tobacco during process of aging. Perique tobacco is raised in one parish in Louisiana, and this is the only place in the world where this tobacco is raised. Saint James Parish, Louisiana

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Lititz (vicinity), Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Tobacco plant on the farm of C.F. Minnich

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Director of mint relaxes on newly acquired farm. Solomon's Island, MD, July 29. Director of the Mint, Nellie Tayloe Ross, finds rest and relaxation from her arduous Treasury duties on her newly acquired 200 acre farm here. She is pictured among her 60,000 tobacco plants which are soon to be harvested. The house on the farm is over 100 years old, 7/29/38

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Near Douglas, Georgia. Sharecroppers grade the cured leaves on the porches and sort them to go to the tobacco auction

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Tobacco field. Florence County, South Carolina

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As the auctioneer knocks down the last bid on each basket of tobacco in the warehouse, the price is immediately recorded, and the farmers go to the "money box" to get their money. Douglas, Georgia

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Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop. They will sell this year's crop for about nine hundred dollars, of which they receive one-half

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Stringing tobacco. Florence County, South Carolina

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Each farmer follows his tobacco in the warehouse to learn what price it brings at auction. Douglas, Georgia

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Brands of tobacco smoked by harvest hands. Ohio

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Churchtown (vicinity), Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Tobacco hanging in a barn

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Hurricane-proof house and tobacco field. La Plata project, Puerto Rico

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Henry Landis in his father's tobacco field. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop. They will sell this year's crop for about nine hundred dollars, of which they receive one-half

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Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop. They will sell this year's crop for about nine hundred dollars, of which they receive one-half

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A man standing next to a horse in a field, Georgia. Farm Security Administration photograph

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Near Tifton, Georgia. Tobacco farms, like Southern cotton farms, carry a heavy surplus which they employ at seasonal peaks

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Reaching for tobacco, Coffey County, Kansas

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Douglas, Georgia. South Georgia tobacco sharecroppers. Fords are beginning to appear among the tobacco sharecroppers. They can bring the crop to the auction at the warehouse, take flour and groceries back to the farm and even carry the boys to Florida for a season's work in the fruit

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Seed bed for shade-grown tobacco. La Plata project. Puerto Rico

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Near Douglas, Georgia. Sharecroppers grade the cured leaves on the porches and sort them to go to the tobacco auction

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Farmland and tobacco barns purchased for rehabilitation client near Raleigh, North Carolina

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Douglas, Georgia. South Georgia tobacco sharecropper during the tobacco auction. In order to eke out a living members of the sharecropper families in recent years have begun to migrate to Florida after cotton or tobacco harvest to work in fruits or vegetables

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A black and white photo of a horse in a field, Georgia. Farm Security Administration photograph

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Wife of resettler in her hurricane-proof house, doing needlework (homework for cash income). The furniture was locally built on local materials under P.R.R.A (Puerto Rico Resettlement Administration) guidance. Outside the window a tobacco field and a tobacco barn. La Plata project, Puerto Rico

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New England tobacco barn between Amherst and Northampton, Massachusetts

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A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a truck, possibly related to: Farmers and warehousemen unloading tobacco on sidewalk, before auction sale. The warehouse was too overloaded to permit more tobacco being brought in. Mebane, North Carolina

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A black and white photo of a crowd of people, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

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Corner of tobacco farmer's front room. Shows enclosed stairway and corner of the new fancy bed. Person County, North Carolina

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A man standing next to a pile of bananas, South Carolina. Farm Security Administration photogrpah

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A group of men standing next to each other, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

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A black and white photo of a man smoking a pipe, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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Farmer talking with with another farmer who has just purchased a turkey. Outside tobacco warehouse where auction sales are being held. Durham, North Carolina

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Tobacco strung on sticks. Granville County, North Carolina

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Mrs. Elvin Wilkins (Rosa) buying candy to send away to her daughter at school. She came to Durham with her husband this day to sell their tobacco at auction and do some general shopping. Durham, North Carolina

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Farmers waiting around and visiting before tobacco auction at warehouse in Mebane, Orange County, North Carolina

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Outside tobacco warehouse during auction sale. Durham, North Carolina

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North Carolina farm boy in doorway of tobacco barn. Person County, North Carolina

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The Compton family taking sticks of tobacco out of the barn to the strip house. They are tenants, and the Negro owner lives in Mebane. This is part of a prosperous Negro settlement between Carr and Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina

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Farmers listening to Armenian bedspread, table linen, and shawl salesman in warehouse during tobacco auctions. Durham, North Carolina

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Wife and five month old baby of young tobacco sharecropper (Mr. Taylor) in window of their home. She is seventeen years old. On the following day she helped "put in" tobacco at the farm. Granville County, North Carolina

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A group of men standing around a man laying on a cart. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

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Baskets of tobacco piled on top of each other after being sold at auction. Here they are picked up by the trucks which haul them to the cigarette factories. This is in the Liberty warehouse. Durham, North Carolina

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Owner's daughter topping tobacco. She has a patch of her own of about 1000 hills from which she will be given the proceeds. Her father buys her clothes and she can have the "patch" money for whatever she wants. She is in the eighth grade; says she doesn't learn as fast as she ought. Granville County, North Carolina

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A group of men standing next to a car, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

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Note on architecture. A new very fancy log bungalow showing influence of tobacco barn construction. Logs are painted black and white. Near Gordonton, North Carolina

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A group of men standing around a sheep. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

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Compton, Negro sharecropper and his wife stripping and grading tobacco. He has a Negro landlord who lives in Mebane, part of a very prosperous Negro settlement. Near Carr, North Carolina. See general notes on subregion, Sept. 28, 1939, number four

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Children of sharecropper sitting near tobacco shed, outside house, near Manning, South Carolina

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Very often farmers must travel long distances at night or wait several days for tobacco to be sold. They can be found sleeping on the covered piles of tobacco in warehouse or in their trucks or on the floors of camp room. Durham, North Carolina

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A man pushing a baby carriage down a street. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

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Selling socks and neckties outside tobacco warehouse, Durham, North Carolina

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Farmer selling pig to other farmers outside warehouse. Many farmers bring livestock and supplies to sell to other farmers when they come to town with their tobacco for auction. Mebane, North Carolina

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Part of tobacco warehouse showing farmer's car with trailer of tobacco for auction. Oxford, North Carolina

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Farmers eat a lot of ice cream and drink lots of beer while waiting for tobacco to be sold at auction sales outside warehouse, Durham, North Carolina

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Farm landscape, Person County, North Carolina, showing tobacco fields, pasture, fine woods, white sandy roads, and operator's house between trees at left

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Runt's pool parlor with poster advertising a tobacco ball in window. Zebulon, Wake county, North Carolina

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Wife of tobacco sharecropper putting breakfast dishes away. Person County, North Carolina

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Farmer taking his tobacco from one warehouse to another for auction sale. Most of the warehouses are very rushed and quickly filled up the first of the week because most farmers think they get a better price on Monday and Tuesday. Mebane, Orange County, North Carolina

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Cars belonging to farmers loaded with tobacco which is being brought to warehouse for auction sale. Mebane, North Carolina

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Very often farmers must travel long distances at night or wait several days for tobacco to be sold. They can be found sleeping on the covered piles of tobacco in warehouses or in their trucks or the floors of camp rooms. Durham, North Carolina

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Tobacco sharecropper. Person County, North Carolina

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After the sale at auction the tobacco is piled up in baskets and wheeled to the trucks for loading. Durham, North Carolina

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Negro plowing corn. He is a tenant who raises mainly tobacco, and has lived here for four years. The corn field is grassy and poor. Off Highway 144. Person County, North Carolina

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