Hog killing on Milton Puryeur place; He is a Negro owner of.

Hog killing on Milton Puryeur place; He is a Negro owner of five acres of land; Rural Route No. 1, Box 59, Dennison, Halifax County, Virginia; This is six miles south on Highway No. 501 of South Boston; He used to grow tobacco and cotton but now just a subsistence living; These hogs belong to a neighbor landowner; He burns old shoes and pieces of leather near the heads of the slaughtered hogs while they are hanging to keep the flies away, Nov. 1939. Wolcott, Marion Post -- Photographer. Date depicted: November 1939 Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / Virginia. / 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?1260089 Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)

Date

1939-11

Photographer / author

New York Public Library

Collection

FSA/OWI

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

photograph

Original size

760 × 582 pixels

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