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Loading cotton in Natchez, Mississippi

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Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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01/01/1935

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Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969, photographer

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