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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, September 28, 1939, number four

Compton, Negro sharecropper, and his wife stripping and grading tobacc...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Barber shop in Negro settlement on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

Barber shop in Negro settlement on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Feeding the sorghum cane into the mill to make syrup on property of Wes Chris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina

Feeding the sorghum cane into the mill to make syrup on property of We...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Feeding the sorghum cane into the mill to make syrup on property of Wess Cris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina

Feeding the sorghum cane into the mill to make syrup on property of We...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Feeding the sorghum cane into the mill to make syrup on property of Wes Chris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina

Feeding the sorghum cane into the mill to make syrup on property of We...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Feeding the sorghum cane into the mill to make syrup on property of Wes Chris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina

Feeding the sorghum cane into the mill to make syrup on property of We...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

A group of men standing next to each other, North Carolina. Farm Secur...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

The Compton family taking sticks of tobacco out of the barn to the str...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Feeding the sorghum cane into mill to make syrup on property of Wes Chris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina

Feeding the sorghum cane into mill to make syrup on property of Wes Ch...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a horse pulling a wagon, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a horse pulling a wagon, Great Depression. ...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Billy, four year old son of Mrs. Compton, with stick of tobacco. They are tenants, and the Negro owner lives in Mebane. This is part of a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina

Billy, four year old son of Mrs. Compton, with stick of tobacco. They ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Billy, four year old son of Mrs. Compton, with stick of tobacco. They are tenants, and the Negro owner lives in Mebane. This is part of a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina

Billy, four year old son of Mrs. Compton, with stick of tobacco. They ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

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, September 28, 1939, number four

Compton, Negro sharecropper, and his wife stripping and grading tobacc...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Two women standing in front of a log cabin, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

Two women standing in front of a log cabin, North Carolina. Farm Secur...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro defense workers living in a Negro settlement near Detroit, Michigan

Negro defense workers living in a Negro settlement near Detroit, Michi...

Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tobacco barns. Negro owner living in Mebane in prosperous Negro settlement between Carr and Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina. See general notes on subregion. September 28, 1939. Number three

Tobacco barns. Negro owner living in Mebane in prosperous Negro settle...

Public domain photograph of North Carolina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Compton and her four year-old son, Billy, taking sticks of tobacco out of barn to strip house. They are tenants and the Negro owner lives in Mebane. This is a part of a prosperous Negro settlement between Carr and Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina. See captions 52055-D and 52080-D. See general notes on subregion. September 28, 1939. Number four

Mrs. Compton and her four year-old son, Billy, taking sticks of tobacc...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barber shop in Negro settlement on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

Barber shop in Negro settlement on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

Public domain photograph of a shop, shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A portable cane mill (the owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup). This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wes Chris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. See general caption notes on subregion, September 28, 1939

A portable cane mill (the owner gets every sixth gallon for making the...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A man sitting in a chair next to a horse, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A man sitting in a chair next to a horse, North Carolina. Farm Securit...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Compton and her four year-old son, Billy, taking sticks of tobacco out of barn to strip house. They are tenants and the Negro owner lives in Mebane. This is a part of a prosperous Negro settlement between Carr and Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina. See captions 52055-D and 52080-D. See general notes on subregion. September 28, 1939. Number four

Mrs. Compton and her four year-old son, Billy, taking sticks of tobacc...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

B.C. Corbett, his wife, and son stripping and grading tobacco in a strip house. He is the owner of a farm, of about six hundred acres which is located in a prosperous Negro settlement in Carr (vicinity), Orange County, N.C

B.C. Corbett, his wife, and son stripping and grading tobacco in a str...

Title and other information from file print. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.p... More

Tobacco "hands" arranged in baskets, brought in from some of B.C. Corbett's tenant farms. He is a prosperous Negro landowner in a Negro settlement near Carr, North Carolina. Orange County

Tobacco "hands" arranged in baskets, brought in from some of B.C. Corb...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro defense workers living in a Negro settlement near Detroit, Michigan

Negro defense workers living in a Negro settlement near Detroit, Michi...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup. This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wess Cris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. They are straining it into a barrel, measured by a gallon can

A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

B.C. Corbett, his wife, and son stripping and grading tobacco in a strip house. He is the owner of a farm, of about six hundred acres which is located in a prosperous Negro settlement in Carr (vicinity), Orange County, N.C.

B.C. Corbett, his wife, and son stripping and grading tobacco in a str...

Public domain photograph of North Carolina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old photo of a horse pulling a wagon Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

An old photo of a horse pulling a wagon Farmers of Great Depression. D...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup. This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wess Cris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. They are straining it into a barrel, measured by a gallon can

A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Feeding the sorghum cane into the mill to make syrup on property of Wes Chris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina

Feeding the sorghum cane into the mill to make syrup on property of We...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Barber shop in Negro settlement on the outskirts of Washington, D.C

Barber shop in Negro settlement on the outskirts of Washington, D.C

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Mrs. Compton and her four year old son, Billy, taking sticks of tobacco out of 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

Mrs. Compton and her four year old son, Billy, taking sticks of tobacc...

Public domain photograph of a farm barn, granary, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stock barn with wagon and truck of hay on a very prosperous farm, over 600 acres, belonging to a Negro, B.C. Corbett. This is a Negro settlement. Near Carr, in Orange County, North Carolina

Stock barn with wagon and truck of hay on a very prosperous farm, over...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, farmhouse, farm field, pasture free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of men standing next to each other, possibly related to: A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup. This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wess Cris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. They are straining it into a barrel, measured by a gallon can

A group of men standing next to each other, possibly related to: A por...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Feeding the sorghum cane into the mill to make syrup on property of Wes Chris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina

Feeding the sorghum cane into the mill to make syrup on property of We...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

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

Compton, Negro sharecropper and his wife stripping and grading tobacco...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tobacco barns. Negro owner living in Mebane in prosperous Negro settlement between Carr and Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina. See general notes on subregion. September 28, 1939. Number three

Tobacco barns. Negro owner living in Mebane in prosperous Negro settle...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Stock barn with wagon and truck of hay on a very prosperous farm, over 600 acres, belonging to a Negro, B.C. Corbett. This is a Negro settlement. Near Carr, in Orange County, North Carolina

Stock barn with wagon and truck of hay on a very prosperous farm, over...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A portable cane mill (the owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup). This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wes Chris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. They are straining it into a barred, measured by a gallon can

A portable cane mill (the owner gets every sixth gallon for making the...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup. This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wes Cris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina

A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A portable cane mill (the owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup). This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wes Chris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. See general caption notes on subregion, September 28, 1939

A portable cane mill (the owner gets every sixth gallon for making the...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup. This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wess Cris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. They are straining it into a barrel, measured by a gallon can

A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

B.C. Corbett, his wife, and son stripping and grading tobacco in a strip house. He is the owner of a farm, of about six hundred acres which is located in a prosperous Negro settlement in Carr (vicinity), Orange County, N.C

B.C. Corbett, his wife, and son stripping and grading tobacco in a str...

Title and other information from file print. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.p... More

A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup. This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wes Cris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina

A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Two women standing in front of a log cabin, possibly related to: Mrs. Compton and her four year old son, Billy, taking sticks of tobacco out of 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

Two women standing in front of a log cabin, possibly related to: Mrs. ...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Grading and stripping tobacco, on grading board in strip house, on very prosperous farm belonging to B.C. Corbett, in picture with his son, in a Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina

Grading and stripping tobacco, on grading board in strip house, on ver...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a horse pulling a wagon Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photo.

A black and white photo of a horse pulling a wagon Farm Security Admin...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

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

Compton, Negro sharecropper and his wife stripping and grading tobacco...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Barber shop in Negro settlement on the outskirts of Washington, D.C

Barber shop in Negro settlement on the outskirts of Washington, D.C

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup. This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wess Cris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. They are straining it into a barrel, measured by a gallon can

A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Tobacco "hands" arranged in baskets, brought in from some of B.C. Corbett's tenant farms. He is a prosperous Negro landowner in a Negro settlement near Carr, North Carolina. Orange County

Tobacco "hands" arranged in baskets, brought in from some of B.C. Corb...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Grading and stripping tobacco, on grading board in strip house, on very prosperous farm belonging to B.C. Corbett, in picture with his son, in a Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina

Grading and stripping tobacco, on grading board in strip house, on ver...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

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

The Compton family taking sticks of tobacco out of the barn to the str...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

B.C. Corbett, his wife, and son stripping and grading tobacco in a strip house. He is the owner of a farm, of about six hundred acres which is located in a prosperous Negro settlement in Carr (vicinity), Orange County, N.C.

B.C. Corbett, his wife, and son stripping and grading tobacco in a str...

Public domain photograph of North Carolina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description