Near Olive Hill, North Carolina, July 1939.
Thirteen year old daughter of Negro sharecropper planting sweet potatoes.

Near Olive Hill, North Carolina, July 1939.
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, then cover the roots with earth.
Her father hopes to send her to school.
Note pine woods and light colored soil.

Photographer: Dorothea Lange
Source: LOC Digital Collection