MAKE A MEME View Large Image Harmony Community, Putnam County, Georgia....These are (African-American) CCC boys working in a fiel . . . - NARA - 521320.jpg Scope and content Full caption reads as follows Harmony Community Putnam County Georgia These are ...
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Keywords: Harmony Community, Putnam County, Georgia....These are (African-American) CCC boys working in a fiel . . . - NARA - 521320.jpg Scope and content Full caption reads as follows Harmony Community Putnam County Georgia These are African-American CCC boys working in a field south of Harmony Their job here is to clear five acres of weeds and brambles Ordinarily scrub and waste are not burned since the burning tends to harm the soil In this instance some of the briar patches were too dense to be dealt with in any other way Work of this sort is done on the land of any man white or African-American if he will adopt certain conservation practices and is known to be a cooperator A local priority board decides who is eligible for this service No more than five acres are cleared on any one farm but pasture is fenced free of charge if the operator will supply the materials Most people disapprove of the conservation program because they think the government shouldn't tell people how to farm General notes 521320 Local identifier 83-G-41007 Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics Division of Economic Information ca 1922 - ca 1953 NARA-Author Rusinow Irving Photographer 5307166 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1941 05 28 - 1941 06 01 Record group Record Group 83 Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics 1876 - 1959 Record group ARC 412 Photographic Prints Documenting Programs and Activities of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and Predecessor Agencies compiled ca 1922 - ca 1947 documenting the period ca 1911 - ca 1947 Series ARC 521048 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-83-G-41007 Other versions <gallery> File Harmony_Community _Putnam_County _Georgia These_are_ African-American _CCC_boys_working_in_a_fiel_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521320 tif tif File Harmony_Community _Putnam_County _Georgia These_are_ African-American _CCC_boys_working_in_a_fiel_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521320 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Irving Rusinow Putnam County Georgia Black and white photographs of Georgia U S state
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