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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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