1939 Vintage Photo of Tobacco Priming in North Carolina

A white sharecropper and wage laborer prime tobacco in the early morning light of Granville County, North Carolina in July 1939. This image is part of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information collection, documenting agricultural labor practices. Sharecropping was a prevalent system in the South, reflecting economic conditions of the time.

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