Thirteen year old daughter of Negro sharecropper..., Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange. # 2900189

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Thirteen year old daughter of Negro sharecropper planting sweet potatoes. She walks down the row and places the young plants in the holes her father has dug with a hoe. They will return down the row, water the plants with a bucket of water, then cover roots with earth. Person County, Olive Hill, North Carolina].

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