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Compton Family
Title:
The Compton family taking sticks of tobacco out of the barn to the strip house.

Title:
The Compton family taking sticks of tobacco out of the barn to the strip house. They are tenants, and the Negro owner lives in Mebane. This is part of a prosperous Negro settlement between Carr and Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina.
Contributor Names:
Marion Post Wolcott, 1910-1990, photographer
Created / Published:
1939 Sept.?
Source Collection:
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Part of
Lot 1516 (55)
Source: Library Of Congress, LOC
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