Thirteen year old daughter of African American sharecropper planting sweet potatoes, 8b33988
Thirteen year old daughter of African American sharecropper planting sweet potatoes. She walks down the row and places the young plants in the holes her father dug with a hoe. They will return down the row, water the plants with a bucket then cover the roots with earth. Olive Hill, North Carolina.
- Date
- 1939-07
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 4,792 × 5,256 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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