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.

2-896-959 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

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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People Information

Creator
  1. Dorothea Lange, attributed to: American: Photographer, artist, photojournalist

Medium
  1. Photograph

Geographic Hierarchy

World North and Central America United States South Carolina

  1. 34 00 00 N , 080 00 00 W

World North and Central America United States North Carolina

  1. 35 30 00 N , 080 00 00 W

Category Hierarchy

Trade & Industry Occupations

Trade & Industry Agriculture & Fishing

Society & Culture Issues & Causes

Locations & Buildings Other

People Other

Society & Culture Wealth & Poverty


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4757x4960
File Size : 23,042kb


Aliases

  1. 2017771113
  1. 1010001933
  1. 2-896-959
  1. 2017771113
  1. 2896959

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