A tobacco work crew. Times were hard then as they are now.
I remember doing an older blog about working in tobacco in South Georgia when I was a teen. The blog even has a picture of me! Published in a newspaper! Working on a harvester-tractor used in tobacco harvesting. Ok, ok, here's the blog. Go read it and see the pictures.
https://activerain.com/droplet/5pVB
Wasn't that fun? Now the picture above was the way it used to be. Poor people needing money working under the shelter of the typical tobacco barn which was found all over the south when tobacco was king and everyone smoked. The workers might take their kids who could hand the tobacco leaves to a person who would string it on slender sticks of wood that was to be hung in the tobacco barn. The leaves were picked out in the fields and hauled in a sled to the barn for the stringing. Notice the man with no shoes. Also notice the women had on dresses.....women didn't believe in wearing pants at that time. I don't remember where I got this picture but it is very authentic. The money paid per day was about $3. Times were very hard then and $3 went a lot further than it does today.
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