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Sharecropper with wife and child in their tobacco field. Note that the tobacco grows up to the front porch. Near Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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Title

Sharecropper with wife and child in their tobacco field. Note that the tobacco grows up to the front porch. Near Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Collection

Farm Security Administration Photographs
Lange, Dorothea

Names

United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lange, Dorothea (Photographer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1939-07

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 019894-E

Subjects

North Carolina -- Chapel Hill
North Carolina -- Orange County
Sharecroppers
Farms
Croplands
Tobacco
Farmhouses

Genres

Photographs

Notes

Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Title and date from Library of Congress.

Physical Description

Gelatin silver prints
Extent: Print Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Identifiers

TMS ID: 24724
TMS Object Number: 019894-E
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 83bfa140-975f-0136-217b-0c7ec6e11a10

Rights

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Still Image

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Sharecropper with wife and child in their tobacco field. Note that the tobacco grows up to the front porch. Near Chapel Hill, North Carolina" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/83bfa140-975f-0136-217b-0c7ec6e11a10

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. Sharecropper with wife and child in their tobacco field. Note that the tobacco grows up to the front porch. Near Chapel Hill, North Carolina Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/83bfa140-975f-0136-217b-0c7ec6e11a10

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Sharecropper with wife and child in their tobacco field. Note that the tobacco grows up to the front porch. Near Chapel Hill, North Carolina" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 7, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/83bfa140-975f-0136-217b-0c7ec6e11a10

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