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Harvest Time: 1939

Submitted by Dave on Wed, 04/10/2019 - 2:24pm.
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November 1939. "Farmers looking at their checks outside tobacco warehouse after auction sales. Durham, North Carolina." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

November 1939. "Farmers looking at their checks outside tobacco warehouse after auction sales. Durham, North Carolina." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

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The car

Submitted by nzcarnerd on Sun, 04/21/2019 - 6:48pm.

The car is a Century I reckon - it has the fatter 7.00 x 15" tyres whereas the similar looking Special was on skinnier 6.50 x 16s.

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Buyer's car, perhaps?

Submitted by mechmike on Sun, 04/21/2019 - 12:37pm.

The chrome window trim identifies that '39 Buick as a Century Series 60. I would bet the car belongs to one of the tobacco buyers rather than one of the farmer/sellers.

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Pinstriped wheels

Submitted by pinstripe52 on Wed, 04/17/2019 - 11:55am.

Notice the triple stripes on the wheels. Done by hand for sure!

[Incorrect. - Dave]

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Taint necessarily so

Submitted by seasoned on Sat, 04/13/2019 - 5:40am.

Standing next to a car does not mean that it is yours. A pickup would be more appropriate for the farmers seen here.

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Shorpy Vehicle Identification Imperative

Submitted by bohneyjames on Thu, 04/11/2019 - 8:16pm.

1939 Buick 4 door sedan

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Explosive proximity

Submitted by rivlax on Thu, 04/11/2019 - 11:10am.

This photo was taken about five blocks from where the fatal gas explosion occurred in Durham yesterday.

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Not Exactly the Joads

Submitted by Doubleclutchin on Wed, 04/10/2019 - 6:34pm.

This is the second instance we've seen in the last couple of days of late-Depression farmers (first potato, then tobacco) running around in new Buicks. Surely John Steinbeck would have been surprised.

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