Wes Cris

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.