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Billy, son of Negro sharecropper Compton, taking off tobacco for grading and stripping in strip house. Near Carr, North Carolina
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Billy, son of Negro sharecropper Compton, taking off tobacco for grading and stripping in strip house. Near Carr, North Carolina

Wolcott, Marion Post · 1939 · photo, print, drawing

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tobacco barnsorange countysharecropperssafety film negativesafrican americanschildrennorth carolinacarr
Credit lineBilly, son of Negro sharecropper Compton, taking off tobacco for grading and stripping in strip house. Near Carr, North Carolina. 1939. Wolcott, Marion Post. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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