(TENANT FARMING SHARECROPPING) HOLLAND JAMES Collection of

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(TENANT FARMING--SHARECROPPING.) HOLLAND, JAMES. Collection of approximately 150 documents, deeds, receipts photographs, cotton mortgages, and some related ephemera from a family of sharecroppers in South Carolina. Printed and manuscript documents, mostly single page, some larger; several photographs, and real photo post cards; a group of Western Union telegrams and a colorful U.S. Government poster for Cotton Week. Vp, South Carolina, 1895-1955

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A small but fascinating archive relating to J. H. Holland, an African American tenant farmer and his family in Oconee County, South Carolina circa 1895 to circa 1955. There are approximately 100 pieces, including several early deeds and titles, mortgages, insurance policies, subsidy forms, telegrams, photographs and more. The archive tells part of the story of a black tenant farmer and his family, trying to get along in the South during the first half of the twentieth century.