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Skimming the boiling cane juice to make sorghum syrup at cane mill near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina, September 1939.

Skimming the boiling cane juice to make sorghum syrup at cane mill near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina, September 1939.

Photograph title: given by photographer:
Skimming the boiling cane juice to make sorghum syrup at cane mill near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina, September 1939.

Possibly connected to photograph: A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup. This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wes Cris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina.

Additional title given by NY library: [Two African American women skimming the boiling cane juice to make sorghum syrup at sugar cane mill near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina, September 1939.]

United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Marion Post Wolcott, 1910-1990 (Photographer)

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Farm Security Administration Collection.

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