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The cotton planter and his pickers

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Photograph shows Sam Williams (center, holding dog), his wife Diccie Williams (center in white), their youngest son Sidney Williams (in front of Sam), and other men, women, and children in a cotton field. (Source: researcher, L. Johnson, 2017)

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Title on item "The Cotton planter and his pickers" is incorrect. Sam Williams was a sharecropper, not a cotton planter. (Source: researcher, L. Johnson, 2017)

On photograph: "H. Tees, West Point, Miss."

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01/01/1908
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african americans employment cotton pickers cotton plantations group portraits photographic postcards photographic prints portrait photographs cotton planter cotton planter pickers vintage images vintage postcards postcards images black history month black history month racially mixed people photo sharecropper sam williams cotton field ultra high resolution high resolution west point military academy united states military academy west point old pictures library of congress