The caption accompanying this photo reads: "Making a quilt from surplus commodity cotton in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia."1941. Photo by Jack Delano. [American Memory link]
Showcasing some of the 160,000 images taken between 1935 and 1944 by government-hired photographers. (If you were to look at 100 of them per day, every day, you'd need more than four years to view them all).
The caption accompanying this photo reads: "Making a quilt from surplus commodity cotton in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia."