Title

Wives of tobacco tenants pile the tobacco..., Granville County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Wives of tobacco tenants pile the tobacco before the barn preparatory to firing. Granville County, North Carolina.

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A58_029

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

51,1Mb (2,1Mb) / 13,7in x 14,5in / 4118 x 4339 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature exterior outdoors South standing countryside building harvest agriculture female women woman people male child children library work man men farming plant plants economics worker country marriage guy Southern barn pile North Carolina photography rustic poor poverty harvesting location century tobacco thirties crutches concept depression negative recession tobacco leaves wives wife B&W crutch Library of Congress United States of America black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression tobacco plant rural workers American America US USA rural life TGN women at work outside working photograph united states tobacco leaf Regionalism Congressional Library tobacco plantation Heritage Art Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative still image Nitrate negatives. gmgpc Granville County