Dorothea Lange: Whitfield Family, Person County, North Carolina


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Mr. Whitfield, tobacco sharecropper, with baby on front porch. Person County, North Carolina

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Wife and children of Mr. Whifield, tobacco sharecropper, on front porch. Person County, North Carolina

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Wife of tobacco sharecropper bathing baby in her kitchen. Person County, North Carolina

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Wife of tobacco sharecropper in kitchen of home. Person County, North Carolina

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Wife and child of tobacco sharecropper. The littlest girl comes in from outside for something to eat while mother is doing her housework. The child next to the baby is called in this country the "knee baby". Person County, North Carolina

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Corner of kitchen. Home of sharecropper. Person County, North Carolina

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Corner of tobacco farmer's front room. Shows enclosed stairway and corner of the new fancy bed. Person County, North Carolina

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Tobacco sharecropper with his oldest daughter. Person County, North Carolina

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Tobacco sharecropper tells about his prospects. Person County, North Carolina

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Tobacco sharecropper. Ready to return to the field. Person County, North Carolina

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Tobacco sharecropper and his family at the back of their house showing kitchen door, household equipment, foot path to barn. Person County, North Carolina

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Tobacco sharecropper's house. White family. Rural rehabilitation clients. Whitfield family. Near Gordonton, North Carolina

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Children helping father, tobacco sharecropper, at work in tobacco patch. Person County, North Carolina

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Daughter of tobacco sharecropper at country store. Person County, North Carolina

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Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon. Note the kerosene pump on the right and the gasoline pump on the left. The brother of store owner stands near the doorway. Gordonton, Person County, North Carolina

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Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon. Note the kerosene pump on the right and the gasoline pump on the left. The brother of store owner stands near the doorway. Gordonton, North Carolina

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