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Carroll family, Florida
Photo of Carroll Straus Carroll Straus
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06/30/2013
Carroll family, Florida
Carroll family hoeing corn in Florida.
Date & Place: in Hillsborough County, Florida United States
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Photo of AncientFaces AncientFaces
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07/08/2019
It looks so hot and dusty . . . and those are not young people in the corn fields!
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Photo of Carroll Straus Carroll Straus
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06/30/2013
If anyone else kn iows about this branch if the Carroll family let me know. John Olover was birn Sampson County NC in 1820. I al told this ws taken in Florida . Supplied to me by Charles Carroll Slocum, of TX
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Photo of Trudie Cruey Trudie Cruey
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07/08/2019
I can only imagine
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Photo of Brigitte Cherubini Brigitte Cherubini
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07/08/2019
That's a rough life.
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Photo of Doug Thomas Doug Thomas
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07/08/2019
Real life photos are awesome.....love those kind of pics....
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Photo of Terri Allen Terri Allen
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07/08/2019
True meaning of hard work.
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Photo of Doug Thomas Doug Thomas
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07/08/2019
Stirs my senses as to who are theses people????Gotta love it....
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Photo of Linda Haydell Linda Haydell
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07/08/2019
Mom and dad working their land.
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Photo of Brenda Anderson Brenda Anderson
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07/08/2019
Had to work hard to survive in the 1800’s. They may have been younger than you think.
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Photo of Ross Griffin Ross Griffin
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07/08/2019
Black face
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Photo of Ree Young Ree Young
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07/08/2019
What????
Photo of Ross Griffin Ross Griffin
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07/08/2019
Ree Young Every body talks about black face just a joke
Photo of Ree Young Ree Young
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07/08/2019
Apparently, not everybody does because I don't get it at all.
Photo of Linda Falls Linda Falls
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07/08/2019
Ree Young me either
Photo of Maria Kozma Callaghan Maria Kozma Callaghan
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07/08/2019
Yes you worked till you died back then.
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Photo of Linda Woody Linda Woody
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07/08/2019
Maybe it was sugar cane??? But yes, probably corn.
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Photo of Nancy Thompson Nancy Thompson
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07/08/2019
I'm afraid I couldn't survive inland with that high humidity. They look like they could be in their late 30s-40s. Such a hard life.
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Photo of Lisa Barbieri-O'Sullivan Lisa Barbieri-O'Sullivan
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07/08/2019
Most likely sugarcane. Note the fronds, no silk.
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Photo of Harmon Duke Harmon Duke
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07/08/2019
Cool pic, but don’t think it’s corn.
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Photo of Bob Border Bob Border
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07/08/2019
Super tough.
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Photo of John Binfield John Binfield
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07/08/2019
1850 census
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Photo of John Binfield John Binfield
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07/08/2019
From another source
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Photo of Laney Asquith Laney Asquith
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07/08/2019
Such hard, exhausting work!
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Photo of Melissa Lowman Melissa Lowman
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07/08/2019
Doesn’t look like corn. Corn has wider and different shaped leaves. So, maybe sugar cane? Looks like Florida to me though. Hot and miserable unless you’re at the pool. 😂
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Photo of Nancy Trough Nancy Trough
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07/08/2019
People were tough. I know I couldn't do what they did
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Photo of Ree Young Ree Young
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07/08/2019
I lived in Tampa and Hillsborough County and went to school in St. Petersburg. While corn was an important crop, especially during the Civil War, sugar cane, cotton, and rice were big cash crops.

I've seen sugar cane fields...these plants are still young, and the couple are probably hoeing down the weeds. The cane, when ready for harvesting, will be taller than these folks.

As far as what corn looks like in the fields, I am looking out my window (in rural NC where I've lived for over 30 years) right now at the corn growing in the acres in front of my home. There's a big difference between corn and sugar cane plants.

The photo definitely shows sugar cane fields.
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Photo of Elizabeth Grant Elizabeth Grant
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07/08/2019
have to agree with you Ree Young I live in Bundaberg Queensland Australia and we are a sugar town and you are correct it is young cane as the tops are still close to the ground with not much stalk yet. don't know how tall a cane stalk was back then but modern canes would have the stalk taller than a person and the tops way above that so probably still has a good 9mths of growing to do yet
Photo of Larry Cawley Larry Cawley
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07/09/2019
Ree Young I agree, looks like cane.
Photo of Chad Ellis Chad Ellis
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07/08/2019
White too
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Photo of Shirley K. Brown Shirley K. Brown
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07/08/2019
They worked so hard usually for just food on the table. Once in a while they had money for kids shoes and a new pair of overalls. Maybe a length of material for mom and the girls. They had purity of spirit.
They were better people than we have today and more grateful!
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Photo of Dawne Zotz Dawne Zotz
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07/09/2019
Van Gogh would have liked to paint the scene.
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Photo of Becky Kelly Becky Kelly
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07/09/2019
Love these old pictures.
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Photo of Carolyn Hoyt Carolyn Hoyt
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07/09/2019
Hard lives.
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