Farmers must often wait overnight or for several days before their tobacco is sold at auction. They sometimes hang around in cafes or pool rooms, sleeping most anywhere. Durham, North Carolina.

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Farmers must often wait overnight or for several days before their tobacco is sold at auction. They sometimes hang around in cafes or pool rooms, sleeping most anywhere. Durham, North Carolina.

Artist Marion Post Wolcott (American, 1910–1990)

Title Farmers must often wait overnight or for several days before their tobacco is sold at auction. They sometimes hang around in cafes or pool rooms, sleeping most anywhere. Durham, North Carolina.

Date November 1939

Medium Gelatin silver print

Dimensions Image: 9 5/8 × 7 1/4 in. (24.4 × 18.4 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/16 × 8 1/8 in. (25.5 × 20.7 cm)

Credit Line Henry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 79.200.XX.4.3

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Publisher Farm Security Administration

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