Person County, North Carolina Historic photos, documents, and people

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

Millworker's children eating watermelon on porch of rented house. Six miles north of Roxboro, Person County, North Carolina

Wife and child of young sharecropper in cornfield beside house. Hillside Farm, Person County, North Carolina

Conversation among members of congregation after services. Wheeley's Church, Gordonton, North Carolina

Congregation gathers after services to talk. Wheeley's Church, Person County, North Carolina

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

Millworker's home six miles north of Roxboro, North Carolina. Person County, North Carolina

Tobacco sharecropper and his children working on tobacco patch, "topping" and "worming."

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