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Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations; Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations; Hoers carry their lunches; They return about 8 p.m. Mississippi

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Lange, Dorothea

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LOC negative # : 17542-E.
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Image
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Contributors:
United States. Farm Security Administration
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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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Keywords

  1. African American Men
  2. African American Women
  3. African Americans
  4. Cotton Plantation Workers
  5. Day Laborers
  6. Greenville (Miss.)
  7. Mississippi
  8. Trucks
  9. Women

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