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Collection: Lange, Dorothea FSA/OWI PHotos
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Chatham County farmers in town on Saturday afternoon. Pittsboro, North Carolina
Main street, Pittsboro, North Carolina
Zollie Lyons, sharecropper, home from the field for dinner at noontime, and part of his family. Upchurch, North Carolina. He has thirteen acres of tobacco and a labor force of five
Native of North Carolina. Sunbonnet, and homemade old-fashioned knit gloves. This woman is a member of Wheeley Church congregation. Near Gordonton, North Carolina
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
Porch leading to kitchen of sharecropper cabin. They have been putting up strawberries. The sack which hangs on the side wall was used as a strainer Person County, North Carolina
Fourth of July, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Rural filling stations become community centers and general loafing grounds. The men in the baseball suits are on a local team which will play a game nearby. They are called the Cedargrove Team
Women of the congregation of Wheeley's Church on steps with brooms and buckets on annual clean up day. Gordonton, North Carolina
Women assembled at Wheeley's Church near Gordonton, North Carolina, to clean up church and grounds on annual cleaning up day
Wheeley's Church and grounds. Person County, North Carolina
Congregation entering church. Wheeley's Church. 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
Congregation gathers after services to talk. Wheeley's Church, Person County, North Carolina
Families stringing tobacco brought in from the field by sled. Granville County, North Carolina
Tombstone in a red clay cemetery. Person County, North Carolina
Mr. Taylor and wage laborer slide the tobacco to barn from the field, about quarter of a mile. Granville County, North Carolina
Noon time chores of tenant farmer: feeding the pigs. Granville County, North Carolina
Conversation among members of congregation after services. Wheeley's Church, Gordonton, North Carolina
Millworker's children eating watermelon on porch of rented house. Six miles north of Roxboro, Person County, North Carolina
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Oxford, North Carolina. Small agricultural center. Note everpresent Confederate monument, and calf in a two horse wagon
Wife and five month old baby of young tobacco sharecropper (Mr. Taylor) in window of their home. She is seventeen years old. On the following day she helped "put in" tobacco at the farm. Granville County, North Carolina
Millworker's home six miles north of Roxboro, North Carolina. Person County, North Carolina