Saturday, October 25, 2014

E.O. Foster Farm, Caswell County, 1940

Photos from the Library of Congress taken October, 1940, on the Caswell County farm of E.O. Foster.
 
 
E.O. Foster, stripping and grading his tobacco.
 
 
 
 
The E.O. Foster farm,  Caswell County, Oct. 1940
 
 
 
Foster's display at the Caswell County Fair. "Live at Home" was a program that encouraged self-sufficiency in family farms, so that families didn't need to spend their limited cash at stores buying what they could have raised at home.
 
 
Shocked corn at the Foster farm.
 
 
 
E.O. Foster's son delivering empty milk bottles back to the dairy.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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