Saturday, October 8, 2016

Traveling Salesman Offers Goods to Caswell County Tobacco Farmers, 1940

From the Library of Congress' collection of historic photographs, which is available online. 


A traveling salesman offers his wares to farmers after they've sold their tobacco crop. Farmers tended to be cash-poor most of the year. This photo was taken in Caswell County in October, 1940.

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