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Dorothea Lange: Chatham County, North Carolina, July 1937.

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Main street, Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina

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Shopping and visiting on main street of Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina. Saturday afternoon

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Main street, Saturday afternoon. Pittsboro, North Carolina

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Chatham County farmers in town on Saturday afternoon. Pittsboro, North Carolina

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Street encounter on a Saturday afternoon. Pittsboro, North Carolina

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Sign tacked to pole near the post office. Main street, Pittsboro, North Carolina

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Tenant farmer. Chatham County, North Carolina

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Tenant farmer and friend. Chatham County, North Carolina

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Two tenant farmers. Chatham County, North Carolina

Wife of Negro sharecropper with two of her six children, none of whom go to school. Chatham Country, North Carolina

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Negro tenant farmer reading paper on a hot Saturday afternoon. Note vegetable garden across footpath. Chatham County, North Carolina

Hickory Mount grange holds its meeting in an old school building, only white farmers attend. Chatham County, North Carolina

Fayetteville Street, Siler City, Chatham County, North Carolina

Appliqued embroideries for sale on street in front of ten cent store. Saturday afternoon. Siler City, Chatham County, North Carolina

Siler City, North Carolina. Wagons pulled up in field one block away from the main street

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

Dorothea Lange: Granville County, North Carolina, July 1937

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Sons of Negro tenant farmer go off visiting on Saturday afternoon. Granville County, North Carolina

Good tobacco, cropped and ready for priming. Granville County, North Carolina

Families stringing tobacco brought in from the field by sled. Granville County, North Carolina

Tobacco strung on sticks. 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 people take it easy after their morning's work of "putting up" tobacco. Granville County, North Carolina

Ten year old son of tobacco sharecropper can do a "hand's work" at tobacco harvest time. Granville County, North Carolina

Eight year old daughter who helps about the tobacco barn and takes care of the baby. Granville County, North Carolina

Dirt road. Earth is red-colored clay mud. Granville County, North Carolina

Crossroads hamlet after a rain. Culbreth, 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

Home of Negro tenant farmer. The right half was built hurriedly after the tornado in 1900 which destroyed all the houses in the section. The last half was built later. One of the daughters has come to the doorway, the rest are hiding. Granville County, North Carolina

Putting in tobacco after the morning work. Shoofly, North Carolina

Colored sharecropper and his children about to leave home through the pine woods after their morning work at the tobacco farm stringing and putting up tobacco. Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina

Noontime chores: feeding chickens on Negro tenant farm. Granville County, North Carolina

Noontime chores on Negro tenant farm. The grandfather and children off to feed the pigs. Granville County, North Carolina

Noontime. Son and grandson of tenant farmer bring in the mules to water at noon. 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

Country filling station owned and operated by tobacco farmer. Such small independent stations have become meeting places and loafing spots for neighborhood farmers in their off times. Granville County, North Carolina

Country filling station owned and operated by tobacco farmer. Such small independent stations have become meeting places (community center) and loading spots for neighborhood farmers in their off times. Granville County, North Carolina

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Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina. Small agricultural center. Note everpresent Confederate monument, and calf in a two horse wagon

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

Dorothea Lange: Person County, North Carolina, July 1937

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

Dorothea Lange: Whitfield Family, Person County, North Carolina, July 1937

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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