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Tobacco warehouse at Belvoir, (Estate of Lord Fairfax) Virginia

Tobacco warehouse at Belvoir, (Estate of Lord Fairfax) Virginia

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Rehabilitation supervisor examines client's tobacco crop. Durham, North Carolina

Rehabilitation supervisor examines client's tobacco crop. Durham, Nort...

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Where the Connecticut River cut a new channel near Hatfield, Massachusetts, ruining good tobacco land

Where the Connecticut River cut a new channel near Hatfield, Massachus...

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

Each farmer follows his tobacco in the warehouse to learn what price i...

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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

Near Douglas, Georgia. "You don't have to worriate so much and you've ...

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Street in Mebane, North Carolina in morning before tobacco auction sale

Street in Mebane, North Carolina in morning before tobacco auction sal...

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Farmers waiting around outside warehouse before tobacco auction sale.  Tobacco was brought in trailer to warehouse. Oxford, North Carolina

Farmers waiting around outside warehouse before tobacco auction sale. ...

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A black and white photo of a group of men. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a group of men. Great Depression FSA photog...

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A black and white photo of a group of men Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

A black and white photo of a group of men Farmers of Great Depression....

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Tobacco field showing wilt. No remedy known for this disease, prevalent this year in Granville County, North Carolina

Tobacco field showing wilt. No remedy known for this disease, prevalen...

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Tobacco barn with front shelter. Olive Hill, North Carolina

Tobacco barn with front shelter. Olive Hill, North Carolina

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A black and white photo of a group of men. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a group of men. Great Depression FSA photog...

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Tobacco country, vicinity of Barranquitas? Puerto Rico

Tobacco country, vicinity of Barranquitas? Puerto Rico

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A man pushing a cart down a city street, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A man pushing a cart down a city street, North Carolina. Farm Security...

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Ten year old son of tobacco tenant tends the fire which is curing the tobacco in the barn. Granville County, North Carolina

Ten year old son of tobacco tenant tends the fire which is curing the ...

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General view of a hillside farm which faces the road showing owner's house, outbuildings, and tobacco field showing erosion. The Negro sharecropper farm is on the other side of this same hill. Person County, North Carolina

General view of a hillside farm which faces the road showing owner's h...

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Itinerant preacher spreading "religion" to farmers outside warehouse while tobacco auction sales are going on. Durham, North Carolina

Itinerant preacher spreading "religion" to farmers outside warehouse w...

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Billy, son of Negro sharecropper Compton, taking off tobacco for grading and stripping in strip house. Near Carr, North Carolina

Billy, son of Negro sharecropper Compton, taking off tobacco for gradi...

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A couple of people that are standing in front of a car Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photo.

A couple of people that are standing in front of a car Farm Security A...

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

Daughter of white tobacco sharecropper at country store. Person County, North Carolina

Daughter of white tobacco sharecropper at country store. Person County...

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Tobacco barn and shed. Person County, North Carolina

Tobacco barn and shed. Person County, North Carolina

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Interior of pack house showing ungraded tobacco and sticks, and in the foreground the sticks of "hands" and tied tobacco. Belongs to B.C. Corbett, prosperous Negro farm owner near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina

Interior of pack house showing ungraded tobacco and sticks, and in the...

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Spearing tobacco, Wisconsin. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Spearing tobacco, Wisconsin. Great Depression public domain photograph...

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Bookmen following the sale and checking the price of the tobacco for the warehouse, Durham, North Carolina

Bookmen following the sale and checking the price of the tobacco for t...

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A black and white photo of two men working in a field. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of two men working in a field. Great Depressio...

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A group of men standing next to a brick building. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A group of men standing next to a brick building. Great Depression FSA...

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

A group of men standing around a car. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A group of men standing around a car. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

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Tobacco sleds newly covered with tow sacks, ready for "putting in" the tobacco. Person County, North Carolina

Tobacco sleds newly covered with tow sacks, ready for "putting in" the...

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Loading hay into barn on tobacco farm of A.B. Douglas. Blairs, Virginia, Pittsylvania County

Loading hay into barn on tobacco farm of A.B. Douglas. Blairs, Virgini...

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A group of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A group of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FSA photo...

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Farmers sleeping in Negro camp room in warehouse. They often must remain overnight or several days before their tobacco is auctioned. Several of them are using an old tobacco basket for a pillow. Durham, North Carolina

Farmers sleeping in Negro camp room in warehouse. They often must rema...

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 group of men standing around a table, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A group of men standing around a table, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Phot...

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

A group of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A group of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FFSA / OW...

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Wage laborer topping tobacco. Granville County, North Carolina

Wage laborer topping tobacco. Granville County, North Carolina

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White sharecropper and wage laborer priming tobacco early in the morning. Granville County, North Carolina

White sharecropper and wage laborer priming tobacco early in the morni...

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

Tobacco people take it easy after their morning's work "putting up" tobacco. Granville County, North Carolina

Tobacco people take it easy after their morning's work "putting up" to...

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A man holding a sign that says i bet on catfish, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A man holding a sign that says i bet on catfish, North Carolina. Farm ...

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Farmers put their tobacco in the handiest conveyance to bring to tobacco warehouse for auction. Durham, North Carolina

Farmers put their tobacco in the handiest conveyance to bring to tobac...

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 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. ...

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Transporting tobacco from warehouse after auction sale to the cigarette factories and storage warehouses. Danville, Virginia

Transporting tobacco from warehouse after auction sale to the cigarett...

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Brunswick stew dinner in front of the tobacco warehouse on opening day of the auctions. Prepared by Parent Teachers Association of Prospect Hill, to raise money for a new gymnasium for the Prospect Hill Consolidated School in Caswell County, North Carolina

Brunswick stew dinner in front of the tobacco warehouse on opening day...

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Leaves of tobacco in a field near Warehouse Point, Connecticut

Leaves of tobacco in a field near Warehouse Point, Connecticut

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A black and white photo of a field of tobacco, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a field of tobacco, Kenntucky. Farm Securit...

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Weighing in tobacco on scales in warehouse in Danville, Virginia, where many Caswell County farmers sell their tobacco at auction. North Carolina

Weighing in tobacco on scales in warehouse in Danville, Virginia, wher...

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A black and white photo of a group of people. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a group of people. Great Depression FSA pho...

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A black and white photo of a city street, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a city street, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Ph...

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Outside of the tobacco warehouses in Durham, North Carolina

Outside of the tobacco warehouses in Durham, North Carolina

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Cultivating shade tobacco covered by "fields" of cheesecloth to protect it from the sun. Near Hartford, Connecticut

Cultivating shade tobacco covered by "fields" of cheesecloth to protec...

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Suckering shade tobacco covered by "fields" of cheesecloth to protect it from the sun. Near Hartford, Connecticut

Suckering shade tobacco covered by "fields" of cheesecloth to protect ...

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Cultivating tobacco in a field near Barranquitas, Puerto Rico

Cultivating tobacco in a field near Barranquitas, Puerto Rico

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Windsor Locks, Connecticut (vicinity). Daughter of Polish farmer helping in the tobacco harvest

Windsor Locks, Connecticut (vicinity). Daughter of Polish farmer helpi...

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Statues and sculpture. Tobacco capitol in small rotunda

Statues and sculpture. Tobacco capitol in small rotunda

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Factory building of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company (also known as Helme Tobacco Company) on Wheeling Island, a part of Wheeling, West Virginia, in the middle of the Ohio River

Factory building of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company (also known as ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The company was best known for its Mail Pouch chewing tobacco, a popular chew advertised on more than 20,000 of barns, mostly in the r... More

The headquarters building of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company (also known as Helme Tobacco Company), next to the company's factory in Wheeling, West Virginia

The headquarters building of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company (also ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was best known for its Mail Pouch chewing tobacco, a popular chew advertised on more than 20,000 of barns, mostly in the rural Ohio... More

Colored sharecropper and his children about to leave home through the pine woods after their morning work at the tobacco farm stringing and putting up tobacco. Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina

Colored sharecropper and his children about to leave home through the ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Tobacco Warehouse, State Route 1002, Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virginia

Tobacco Warehouse, State Route 1002, Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virgin...

Significance: Built originally as a storehouse. This building is a striking survival of a colonial mercantile establishment of a succession of Scots merchants. It is undoubtedly one of the earliest extant build... More

Tobacco Warehouse, State Route 1002, Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virginia

Tobacco Warehouse, State Route 1002, Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virgin...

Significance: Built originally as a storehouse. This building is a striking survival of a colonial mercantile establishment of a succession of Scots merchants. It is undoubtedly one of the earliest extant build... More

Tobacco Warehouse, State Route 1002, Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virginia

Tobacco Warehouse, State Route 1002, Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virgin...

Significance: Built originally as a storehouse. This building is a striking survival of a colonial mercantile establishment of a succession of Scots merchants. It is undoubtedly one of the earliest extant build... More

Tobacco Barn, South Street Extension, Westfield, Hampden County, MA

Tobacco Barn, South Street Extension, Westfield, Hampden County, MA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-9 Survey number: HABS MA-103 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction

Richmond, Virginia. Castle Thunder. (Cary Street) (Converted tobacco warehouse for political prisoners)

Richmond, Virginia. Castle Thunder. (Cary Street) (Converted tobacco w...

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Tobacco District Rehabilitation Project, Danville, Danville, Virginia

Tobacco District Rehabilitation Project, Danville, Danville, Virginia

For other photos of workers' housing, see HABS VA-1036 & HABS VA-1037. This GPO publication is included in the field records: Rehabilitation, Danville 1978: A Strategy for Building Reuse and Neighborhood Conser... More

Tobacco District Rehabilitation Project, Danville, Danville, Virginia

Tobacco District Rehabilitation Project, Danville, Danville, Virginia

For other photos of workers' housing, see HABS VA-1036 & HABS VA-1037. This GPO publication is included in the field records: Rehabilitation, Danville 1978: A Strategy for Building Reuse and Neighborhood Conser... More

Tobacco District Rehabilitation Project, Danville, Danville, Virginia

Tobacco District Rehabilitation Project, Danville, Danville, Virginia

For other photos of workers' housing, see HABS VA-1036 & HABS VA-1037. This GPO publication is included in the field records: Rehabilitation, Danville 1978: A Strategy for Building Reuse and Neighborhood Conser... More

Sharecropper family near Manning, South Carolina. One of the sons is "putting in" tobacco

Sharecropper family near Manning, South Carolina. One of the sons is "...

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Charlie Howard, a colored tenant on farm of B.F. Mitchell, R. 1, and his 2 boys. Robbie is 6 and Willie is 11 years old. Worming and suckering tobacco. Father says children will go to Rocky Ridge School when it opens.  Location: Trigg County--Gracey, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Charlie Howard, a colored tenant on farm of B.F. Mitchell, R. 1, and h...

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

Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are over 15 yrs. Location: Hazardville, Connecticut. / L.W. Hine.

Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9,...

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Tobacco field. View up slope covered with tobacco

Tobacco field. View up slope covered with tobacco

Titles devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to the 19... More

A black and white photo of a dirt field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a dirt field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Pho...

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Loading cured tobacco for market. Georgia

Loading cured tobacco for market. Georgia

Photograph shows the removal of cured tobacco leaves from a barn for transport to a pack house where the leaves would be removed from the sticks, sorted by grade, and bundled in "ties" in preparation for sale. ... More

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

Near Tifton, Georgia. Tobacco farms, like Southern cotton farms, carry...

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Reaching for tobacco, Coffey County, Kansas

Reaching for tobacco, Coffey County, Kansas

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

Near Douglas, Georgia. Sharecroppers grade the cured leaves on the por...

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Tobacco sharecropper tells about his prospects. Person County, North Carolina

Tobacco sharecropper tells about his prospects. Person County, North C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man selling fish, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man selling fish, North Carolina. Farm Se...

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

Tobacco sharecropper child playing. Note burlap covered playhouse. Person County, North Carolina

Tobacco sharecropper child playing. Note burlap covered playhouse. Per...

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A group of men standing in front of a store, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men standing in front of a store, North Carolina. Farm Secu...

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Children helping father, tobacco sharecropper, at work in tobacco patch. Person County, North Carolina

Children helping father, tobacco sharecropper, at work in tobacco patc...

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

A couple of men standing next to a car, North Carolina. Farm Security ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a woman walking down a sidewalk, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a woman walking down a sidewalk, North Caro...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, 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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A group of men standing next to a building, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men standing next to a building, North Carolina. Farm Secur...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Father of sharecropper family. He is sixty-nine years old, has six acres of tobacco, has a large family. Heard in conversation on his porch, "Land is like folks. It gets tired and needs a rest." Person County, North Carolina

Father of sharecropper family. He is sixty-nine years old, has six acr...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of men standing around a pile of bananas, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men standing around a pile of bananas, North Carolina. Farm...

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A black and white photo of two men working in a field. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of two men working in a field. Great Depressio...

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

Tobacco farmer, owner of 100 acres. Person County, North Carolina

Tobacco farmer, owner of 100 acres. Person County, North Carolina

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Negro sharecropper's son goes up and down the long rows worming tobacco. Wake County, North Carolina

Negro sharecropper's son goes up and down the long rows worming tobacc...

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Wife of tobacco sharecropper cleaning butter churn. Person County, North Carolina

Wife of tobacco sharecropper cleaning butter churn. Person County, Nor...

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A black and white photo of a group of children, South Carolina. Farm Security Administration photogrpah

A black and white photo of a group of children, South Carolina. Farm S...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tobacco barn near Gordonton, North Carolina

Tobacco barn near Gordonton, North Carolina

Public domain photograph of a farm barn, granary, 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.

A group of men standing around a man laying on a cart, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men standing around a man laying on a cart, North Carolina....

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sweet potatoes stored for the winter in Negro tenant's tobacco barn. Caswell County, North Carolina

Sweet potatoes stored for the winter in Negro tenant's tobacco barn. C...

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Tenant farmer and part of his family in field ready for tobacco planting. Nine miles north of Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia

Tenant farmer and part of his family in field ready for tobacco planti...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of people sitting at a table with food, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A couple of people sitting at a table with food, North Carolina. Farm ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of an old house, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of an old house, Kenntucky. Farm Security Admi...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Tobacco. Miller and Brown's store. Wilson, New York

Tobacco. Miller and Brown's store. Wilson, New York

Public domain photograph of pharmacy, convenience store, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman fetching water. She lives with her family in lower part of the tobacco barn. Husband works at Fort Bragg. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

Woman fetching water. She lives with her family in lower part of the t...

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Mennonite farmer putting tobacco into his barn, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Mennonite farmer putting tobacco into his barn, near Lancaster, Pennsy...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of men working in a field. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men working in a field. Office o...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Shade tobacco covered by "fields" of cheesecloth to protect it from the sun and some insects. Near Hartford, Connecticut

Shade tobacco covered by "fields" of cheesecloth to protect it from th...

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