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Unloading tobacco, Durham, 1939

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Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Farm Security Administration.

Date created
November 1939
License
This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
Source
Original image housed by The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

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  • North Carolina in the early 20th century: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the first decades of the twentieth century (1900–1929). Topics include changes in technology and transportation, Progressive Era reforms, World War I, women's suffrage, Jim Crow and African American life, the cultural changes of the 1920s, labor and labor unrest, and the Gastonia stirke of 1929. (Page 6.8)
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Black and white photo of men unloading tobacco from a trailer

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The record for this image, provided by the The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture reads:

Unloading tobacco from trailer into baskets according to the grade, the night before auction sale, in warehouse. Durham, North Carolina. Nov. 1939. Wolcott, Marion Post — Photographer. November 1939