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12 photos and 1 illustration tagged greene, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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• libraryofcongress
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• jackdelano
• greenecounty
• georgia
• cotton
• plantation
• redclay
• erosion
• clay
• georgiaclay
• erodedfarm
• publicdomain
• horse
• wagon
• dress
• cart
• mule
• buckboard
• buckboardwagon
• sharecropper
• farm
• bldigital
• date1875

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• The Library of Congress 10 photos & illustrations
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Medicine 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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Workers going home from an afternoon of chopping cotton, Greene County, Ga. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• gkiltz said:

  At least the farm buildings had electricity. Much of the rural south didn't

Chopping cotton on rented land, near White Plains, Greene County, Ga. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 8 older comments, and then…
• successful plot said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Social Documentary Photography & events, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

• artpease said:

  Has this field been planted yet? I see grass/weeds that they are 'chopping' but no cotton. One of the earlier photos shows some plant, I assume cotton, a few inches high in rows that the people are working around with hoes but not here and they should be high enough to show up. Is this just a very labor-intensive way to prepare last years ground for the new planting?

• l0bstar said:

  They probably couldn't afford any major pieces of equipment. It was a cheap but labor intensive tillage method involving chopping down the old cotton plant stalks and turning any plant material under the soil surface.

• Bryan Boyd said:

  Looks like sugarcane forground left side....

• Outrageous Branch said:

  I am noting the even distribution of labor. No glass ceiling here.

Going to town on Saturday afternoon, Greene County, Ga. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 5 older comments, and then…
• roderickbodine said:

  Grrr, the cart is still, they aren't going anywhere.

• Invincible Rice said:

  The three are expecting something and waiting for HOPE to come to them.

• Jonathan Stiles said:

  Here they are on another outing in the same cart: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179931268/

• Jonathan Stiles said:

  I would bet that the photographer was riding on the cart and got them to pull up so that he could get this shot.

• Jean Knowles said:

  There are four women and one man, who is just barely visible between the two women on the left.