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Item information

Title:
Man working sweet potato field with cultivator
Description:
African American man working in the field; Five-hoe cultivator with sweet-potato-vine lifter for hilling sweet potatoes, Glenn Simons farm, Windsor, North Carolina, July 1944
Topics:
Agriculture
Subjects:
African American farmers
African Americans -- History
Agricultural machinery
Cultivators
Farms
Sweet potatoes
Original Format:
Black and white print (photograph)
Extent:
13 x 7 cm
Item identifier:
0050178
Photographer:
Grant, B. E. more info on Grant, B. E. 
Created Date:
Genre:
Action photographs
Location:
Windsor (N.C.)
Digital Project:
University Archives Photographs
Living Off the Land

Source information

Repository:
Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
Collection:
University Archives Photograph Collection. Agricultural Extension and Research services (UA023.007) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
Note field:
Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
Rights:
For questions regarding copyright or permissions, please refer to our Reproduction, Use, Citation, and Copyright page (http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/about).
Funding:
Digitization of this material was made possible, in part, through the support of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, the North Carolina Tobacco Foundation, and the North Carolina Tobacco Research Commission.