Three children on floor of tobacco barn, 1968

Item Information

• Description
  Caption by photographer (Kwilecki): "These are children of the women working just out of camera range, stringing tobacco inside the cool, cathedral-like barns. They play all day on the dirt floor. Their mothers are stringing leaves which will be hung in the barn ceiling to cure."

• Item ID
  kwlph080010290
• Subseries
  Shade Tobacco
• Spatial Coverage
  Georgia
  Decatur County (Ga.)
• Creator
  Kwilecki, Paul, 1928-
• Series
  Photographic Materials Series
• Provenance
  The Paul Kwilecki Photographs and Papers were purchased by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library from 1991 to 2010.
• Date
  1968
• Extent
  11 x 14 in.
• Title
  Three children on floor of tobacco barn, 1968
• Print Number
  unnumbered
• Subject
  Agriculture--Georgia--Decatur County
  Tobacco workers--Georgia--Decatur County
• Type
  black-and-white photographs
  documentary photographs
  photographs
  Image
  Still Image
• Box Number
  Box PHO 8

• Copyright & Usage
  The copyright in the materials included in the Paul Kwilecki Photographs and Papers collection are owned by the photographer's heirs. The photographs are made available by Duke University Libraries, with permission, for the purpose of research, teaching, and private study. For these purposes users may reproduce single copies of the images from this website without prior permission, on the condition that proper attribution is provided on all such copies. For all other uses, and especially for any proposed commercial uses, researchers must contact the Library to request permission.