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Day laborer carrying sack of cotton from field to cotton house to be weighed, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

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Day laborer carrying sack of cotton from field to cotton house to be weighed, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

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Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1939
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Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
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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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