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Josh Taylor, Negro Foreman who has been on place for fifty three years, Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

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Original negative #: 30564-M5
Type:
Image
Format:
Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Contributors:
United States. Farm Security Administration
Created Date:
October 1939?
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From Collection

Farm Security Administration Collection

Record Contributed By

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

Record Harvested From

The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African American Men
  2. African Americans
  3. Cotton Plantation Workers
  4. Horses
  5. Mississippi

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