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[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Negroes shooting craps behind tenant house, disposing of their cotton money on Saturday afternoon, Marcella Plantation, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi]

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[1939 Oct.?]
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Keywords

  1. Mississippi
  2. Mississippi Delta
  3. Nitrate Negatives
  4. United States

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