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Negro sharecropper house on dirt. Dirt log cabin on right is much older than attached frame cabin on left. Both have halfstones. Note dog run and flowering plants in tin can and tubs. This is typical of Negro dwellings. Log build visible. Through the back door is the corncrib. Near Olive Hill, North
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Credit lineNegro sharecropper house on dirt. Dirt log cabin on right is much older than attached frame cabin on left. Both have halfstones. Note dog run and flowering plants in tin can and tubs. This is typical . 1939. Lange, Dorothea. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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