Compton, Negro sharecropper and his wife stripping and gradi.
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, region of North Carolina. September 1939. Wolcott, Marion Post -- Photographer. September 1939 Notes: Original negative #: 52055-D Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / North Carolina. / Marion Post Wolcott. (more info) Repository: The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Photographs and Prints Division. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery. Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1260116 Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)
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- 1939-09
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- photograph
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- 760 × 571 pixels
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