1939 Vintage Photo of Boy Tobacco Harvesting North Carolina

In July 1939, a ten-year-old boy works in a tobacco field in Granville County, North Carolina. At that time, children frequently participated in agricultural labor, especially in sharecropping communities. The image is part of the FSA/OWI Collection, which documents rural life and the socioeconomic challenges in American farming regions.

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