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Wagon load of cotton coming out of the field in the evening, Mileston Plantation, Mississippi Delta, Oct. 1939

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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[Original negative #: 52252-D]
Type:
Image
Format:
Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Contributors:
United States. Farm Security Administration
Created Date:
1939 10
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Farm Security Administration Collection

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African American Boys
  2. African American Men
  3. African Americans
  4. Carts & Wagons
  5. Cotton Plantation Workers
  6. Mississippi

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