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"Land is like folks. It gets tired and needs a rest."

Father of sharecropper family. He is sixty-nine years old, has six acres of tobacco, has a large family.

"Land is like folks. It gets tired and needs a rest."

Title: Father of sharecropper family. He is sixty-nine years old, has six acres of tobacco, has a large family. Heard in conversation on his porch,
"Land is like folks. It gets tired and needs a rest."

Person County, North Carolina.

July 1939.

Photographer: Dorothea Lange

Source: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

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