Pictures of the Depression Era in Caswell, Orange, and Person Counties

Caswell County

Center of Town – Yanceyville, NC

Yanceyville, NC

Saturday in Yanceyville, NC

Dr. S. A. Mallory – Well Known Physician in Yanceyville, NC

Bobby Willis, Son of W. H. Willis (FSA) Borrower, Yanceyville, NC

Person County

Father (69) of Sharecropper Family with Six Acres of Tobacco – Person County, NC

Farmers Sitting Outside the Courthouse in Roxboro, NC

Daughter of White Tobacco Sharecropper at Country Store – Person County, NC

Wheeley’s Church – Person County

Millworker’s Home – Roxboro, NC

Native of North Carolina, Person County with Sunbonnet and Homemade Old-fashioned Knit Gloves

Orange County

Negro Owner’s House – Orange County

Farmers and Wives at an Auction, Mebane, Orange County, NC

Feeding the Sorghum Cane into Mill to Make Syrup on Property of Wes Chris, a Tobacco Farm of about 165 Acres in a Negro Settlement near Carr, Orange County, NC

Carrboro, NC – Desolate Town after Closing of Textiles

Home Chair Worker – Orange County

Millworker’s House – Orange County

Miscellaneous

Little Billy – Four Years Old

Mexican Woman in the Fields

Classic Photo of Woman and her Children

Street Tobacco Warehouses

Prominent Farmer

Negro Group Meeting

Tenant Families

Members Meeting

Farmers Playing Cards

Source America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. 1998. The Library of Congress. 19 September 2008 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/faho me.html

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