Mrs. Compton and her four year old son Billy taking sticks of tobacco out of the barn to the strip house
"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." Nitrate 35mm negative by the American photographer Marion Post Wolcott. Likely dated September 1939. on publication, according to the.
- Date
- 1939-09
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 980 × 652 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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