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Corn field showing topped and untopped cornstallks. About six miles north of Hillsboro on Highway 14, Orange County, North Carolina. See general notes on subregion. September 28, 1939. Number one

Corn field showing topped and untopped cornstallks. About six miles no...

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

Field of corn shocks, belonging to Robert Hughes, rural mail carrier, west of Highway 14 on road to Cedar Grove. Orange County, North Carolina. See general notes on subregion, September 28, 1939. Number two

Field of corn shocks, belonging to Robert Hughes, rural mail carrier, ...

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

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...

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General fall farm landscape showing, with whole shocks of cornstalks. Between Cedar Grove and Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. See general notes on subregion. September 28, 1939. Number three

General fall farm landscape showing, with whole shocks of cornstalks. ...

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Small abandoned sawmill, between Antioch Church and Highway 54. Southern part of Orange County, North Carolina. See general notes on subregion, Sept. 27, 1939

Small abandoned sawmill, between Antioch Church and Highway 54. Southe...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Negro woman dipping snuff while watching them make sorghum syrup at Cane Mill, on Wes Chris' property near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. See general notes on subregion, September 28, 1939

Negro woman dipping snuff while watching them make sorghum syrup at Ca...

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Waste wood. Note large size which would make good firewood. Left on site of small abandoned sawmill, recently moved between Antioch Church and Highway 54. Southern part of Orange County, North Carolina. See general caption notes on subregion. September 27, 1939. Number two and caption 52101-D

Waste wood. Note large size which would make good firewood. Left on si...

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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

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

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Terraced pastures, three small farms treated as unit for the purpose. Owners are Linnie Bailey, his son and son-in-law (Mr. Mann). Route 93, about four and a half miles south of Graham, Alamance County, North Carolina. See general notes on subregion, September 27, 1939. Number three

Terraced pastures, three small farms treated as unit for the purpose. ...

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