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The tobacco barn, a distinctive American architectural form. Note tobacco growing in field behind barn. Person County, North Carolina
Looking down a country road in Person County, North Carolina. Note light, sandy soil.
Father of sharecropper family. He is sixty-nine years old, has six acres of tobacco, has a large family. Heard in conversation on his porch, "Land is like folks. It gets tired and needs a rest." Person County, North Carolina
Negro tenant topping tobacco, Person County, North Carolina
Car belonging to Negro share tenant family. The mother said they were not running it because they did not have the money to buy tags. "I always say rations and clothes comes before riding. I can stay at home." Near Gordonton, North Carolina
Negro plowing corn. He is a tenant; raises mainly tobacco; has lived here for four years. The cornfield is grassy and poor. On dirt road from Highway 144. Person County, North Carolina. He is saying "You ain't looking for money, is you?"
Wife and child of young sharecropper in cornfield beside house. Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina
Young sharecropper and his first child. Hillside Farm. Person County, North Carolina
Home of tenant, Hillside Farm. Note lathe fence to protect flowers in yard. They have no privy and haul water. Sacks hanging on line are used to haul tobacco to market. Person County, North Carolina
Hillside Farm road leading from sharecropper's house back to the public road. Disc harrow rusting in field and tobacco pack house with log "ordering house" adjoining. Person County, North Carolina
White and Negro boys wrestling by side of road. Person County, North Carolina
Young farm boys, natives of North Carolina. Person County, North Carolina
Farm boy with his dog as companion ties out cow in pasture bordering the road. Person County, North Carolina
Mailbox and farm along country road in Person County, North Carolina
Construction detail of rail fence. Person County, North Carolina
Double log cabin of Negro share tenants who raise tobacco. Family of eight has been on this place six or seven years. Person County, North Carolina
Construction detail of double log cabin of Negro share tenants. The cowhide was hung there after being dried on a barn to be used as floor covering. Shelf shows churn, also bucket of water in which baby's bottle is kept cool. Person County, North Carolina
Porch of Negro tenant house, showing household equipment. Person County, North Carolina.
Tobacco barn. Person County, North Carolina. Piece of sheet iron on the left is used to cover the opening of the furnace when starting the fire
Tobacco barn ready for "putting in". Person County, North Carolina
The one-and-a-half story part of this house was built fifty to sixty years ago. The two-story part was built in 1900. Farm is owned by a woman whose husband died seventeen years ago. Person County, North Carolina
Story-and-a-half weatherboard house. Note chinaberry tree, common for shade. Note soil erosion in foreground. Note corner of tobacco field. Person County, North Carolina
Scarecrow on a newly cleared field with stumps near Roxboro, North Carolina
Hoe culture in the South. Poor white, North Carolina
Congregation entering church. Wheeley's Church. Person County, North Carolina
Services are over. Wheeley's Church. Gordonton, Person County, North Carolina
Congregation gathers after services to talk. Wheeley's Church. Gordonton, Person County, North Carolina
Negro Baptist church, Person County, North Carolina
Young North Carolinian in old Ford. He does not farm. "Works for wages." At Tuck's filling station. Person County, North Carolina
Photos by Dorothea Lange, July 1937, from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress
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