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Alabama Negro working in field near Eutaw, Alabama

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Alabama Negro working in field near Eutaw, Alabama

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1936

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Lange, Dorothea, photographer

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Eutaw (Ala.), 32.84056, -87.88750

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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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