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Logging in the alluvial lands of the Mississippi River. Cotton plantation in the Arkansas River Valley

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Logging in the alluvial lands of the Mississippi River. Cotton plantation in the Arkansas River Valley

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Workers posed among logs in The Mississippi River plain, and a farmer working in a cotton field in the Arkansas River Valley.
Engraving by Brinkerhoff & Barnett Co. of Chicago and Gatchell & Manning of Philadelphia.
Illus. in: Riparian lands of the Mississippi River ... / by Frank H. Tompkins. Chicago : A.L. Swift & Co., c1901, p. 429.
Reference copy also available in Specific Subj. File - Rivers and streams-Mississippi Rivers.

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01/01/1901

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Little River, 35.80758, -90.10037

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