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Sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, near Hartsville, South Carolina, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, near Hartsville, South Carolina, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

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Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop. They will sell this year's crop for about nine hundred dollars, of which they receive one-half.

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