Woman preparing poke salad
African American woman, wife of sharecropper, preparing "poke-salad." This is a green which grows wild in the South and which Southern African Americans and many of the whites consider an essential spring tonic. Near Marshall, Texas.
- Date
- 1939-03
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 9,500 × 12,698 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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