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Young people working in garden
About this photograph
Provided by the Green 'N' Growing Collection (The History of Home Demonstration and 4-H Youth Development in North Carolina), Special Collections, North Carolina State University Libraries.
- Date created
- c. 1940
- Location
- Wilson County, North Carolina
- License
- Copyright unknown.
- Source
- Original image housed by North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections Research Center
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This black and white image, taken in 1941, shows 9 boys and girls working in garden in Wilson County, North Carolina. The children, who are tending vegetables, range in age from youngsters to teenagers. The older children are wearing wide brimmed hats are hoeing and the younger children are kneeling and picking vegetables. In the left corner of the photograph is a fruit tree. Behind the garden is fence which separates the garden from a road and fields. In the distance a wooded area can be seen.
