Dorothea Lange: Chatham County, North Carolina


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Main street, Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina

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Shopping and visiting on main street of Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina. Saturday afternoon

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Main street, Saturday afternoon. Pittsboro, North Carolina


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Chatham County farmers in town on Saturday afternoon. Pittsboro, North Carolina

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Street encounter on a Saturday afternoon. Pittsboro, North Carolina


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Sign tacked to pole near the post office. Main street, Pittsboro, North Carolina


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Tenant farmer. Chatham County, North Carolina

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Tenant farmer and friend. Chatham County, North Carolina

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Two tenant farmers. Chatham County, North Carolina


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Wife of Negro sharecropper with two of her six children, none of whom go to school. Chatham Country, North Carolina


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Negro tenant farmer reading paper on a hot Saturday afternoon. Note vegetable garden across footpath. Chatham County, North Carolina

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Hickory Mount grange holds its meeting in an old school building, only white farmers attend. Chatham County, North Carolina

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Fayetteville Street, Siler City, Chatham County, North Carolina


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Appliqued embroideries for sale on street in front of ten cent store. Saturday afternoon. Siler City, Chatham County, North Carolina


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Siler City, North Carolina. Wagons pulled up in field one block away from the main street



Photos by Dorothea Lange, July 1937, from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress

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