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Picking cotton, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas, September 1938

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FSA Ark. 1/14 Lake Dick Project Lee, 1938 28910
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Image
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Photographs Photographic Prints
Contributors:
United States. Farm Security Administration
Created Date:
1938
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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. Arkansas
  4. Cotton Pickers
  5. Employment
  6. United States

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