Digging peanuts

Digging peanuts

Oakley (S.C.)
Women -- South Carolina
Boys -- South Carolina

A black woman and boy work in a field next to a scarecrow. A wooden house and shed are in the background with a wooden fence in front of it and trees growing behind it. Caption reads: "the boy and his sister dig peanuts while the scarecrow looks on. They call the peanuts 'goobers.'"

Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940

Image from opposite page 276 of Highways and Byways of the South by Clifton Johnson, 1905

Jones Library Special Collections

Circa 1902

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From the Clifton Johnson Collection

Photographs

CJ3106

Photograph

7 x 5