Grubbing up palmetto scrub to clear ground for a garden patch

Grubbing up palmetto scrub to clear ground for a garden patch

Florida
Women -- Florida
Men -- Florida
Farming -- Florida

A black woman and man work on clearing up a patch of earth. They are both bending over the ground, the man holding a wooden implement, possibly a hoe. Some trees grow in the background.

Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940

Image from opposite page 24 of Highways and Byways of the South by Clifton Johnson, 1905

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From the Clifton Johnson Collection

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