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Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkansas. June 1937

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Lange, Dorothea

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Original negative #: 17301-C
Type:
Image
Format:
Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Contributors:
United States. Farm Security Administration
Created Date:
1937 06
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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 Agricultural Laborers
  2. African Americans
  3. Cotton Plantation Workers
  4. Day Laborers
  5. Employer Sponsored Transportation
  6. Farm Trucks
  7. Memphis (Tenn.)
  8. Tennessee

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