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Farming

Sharecropper's home

Photograph of a typical sharecropper or tenant farmer's home in Mecklenburg County Physical Description: Original from Tompkins Collection4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Black farming family

Uncle Issac and his wife (name unknown) in front of their cabin. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Gin House

Plantation cotton gin house Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Cotton farm workers

Woker hauling cotton to gin in a mule drawn wagon. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Cotton ginnery

Cotton ginnnery. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Cotton Workers

Cotton worker driving cotton to gin in a mule-drawn wagon. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Cotton Machinery

Travelling cotton gin Physical Description: 4x5 negativeOriginal from Tompkins Papers Publisher: Unknown

Cotton Machinery

Interior shot of a cotton ginnery. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown

Carding and Spinning cotton

Workers on a farm carding and spinning cotton. Physical Description: 4x5 negativeOriginal from Tompkins Papers Collection Publisher: Unknown