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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.
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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