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Bowles, W. R. (photographer)

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A group of men, most of them African American, in the middle of a tobacco field.

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University of Louisville. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Agricultural Laborers
  3. Croplands
  4. Men
  5. Tobacco

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Tobacco field. "Tobacco" Hemp. Hemp. Charlie Howard, a colored tenant on farm of B.F. Mitchell, R. 1, and his 2 boys. Robbie is 6 and Willie is 11 years old. Worming and suckering tobacco. Father says children will go to Rocky Ridge School when it opens. Location: Trigg County--Gracey, Kentucky Charlie Howard, a colored tenant on farm of B.F. Mitchell, R. 1, and his 2 boys. Robbie is 6 and Willie is 11 years old. Worming and suckering tobacco. Father says children will go to Rocky Ridge School when it opens. Location: Trigg County--Gracey, Kentucky Workers scattered all around but lost in the foliage. Tobacco farm of Mr. Stokes-Taylor. He has 50 acres in tobacco this year. Sometimes has 100--a large amount. Mostly negro workers this year. Location: Zion [vicinity], Kentucky African Americans picking cotton in Wilcox County, Alabama. Man plowing with a John Deere tractor beside a field of crimson clover, probably in Autauga County, Alabama. Agriculture A white man and two African American men standing with sacks of potatoes in a field in Baldwin County, Alabama. African American man on a red McCormick-Deering Farmall Cub tractor, in a field on Price McLemore's Oaks Plantation in Montgomery County, Alabama. Albert Griffin with his children in a cotton field in Wilcox County, Alabama. Two men on tractors, preparing a field for planting in Autauga County, Alabama. Two men on tractors, preparing a field for planting in Autauga County, Alabama. African American man on a red McCormick-Deering Farmall Cub tractor, plowing a field on Price McLemore's Oaks Plantation in Montgomery County, Alabama. "First photograph ever taken of the first cotton picking machine." African Americans picking cotton in a field in Alabama. Two men operating a Massey-Harris combine in a field, probably in Autauga County, Alabama. Two men operating a Massey-Harris combine in a field, probably in Autauga County, Alabama.
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