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Granville County, United States
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Ten year old son of tobacco sharecropper can do a "hand's work" at tobacco harvest time. Granville County, North Carolina
Noontime chores. Mules are brought in from the field and watered at well across the road from the house. Granville County, North Carolina
Noontime chores: feeding chickens on tenant farm. Granville County, North Carolina
Noontime. Son and grandson of tenant farmer bring in the mules to water at noon. Granville County, North Carolina
Sons of tenant farmer go off visiting on Saturday afternoon. Granville County, North Carolina
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
Noon time chores of tenant farmer: feeding the pigs. Granville 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
Families stringing tobacco brought in from the field by sled. Granville County, North Carolina
Wife of tenant farmer, Mrs. Oakley, works stringing tobacco during the harvest season. Granville County, North Carolina
Tobacco people take it easy after their morning's work "putting up" tobacco. Granville County, North Carolina
Mr. Taylor, tobacco sharecropper, relaxes when the tobacco has been "put up." Granville County, North Carolina
Eight year old daughter who helps about the tobacco barn and takes care of the baby. Granville County, North Carolina
Coming out of tobacco barn in which tobacco is being cured. Careful check of temperature must be made. Granville County, North Carolina
Tobacco strung on sticks. Granville County, North Carolina
White sharecropper, Mr. Taylor, has just finished priming this field of tobacco. Granville County, North Carolina
Construction detail of tobacco barn showing method of firing