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Negroes spending their cotton money in gambling and juke joint, Saturday night, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta

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Negroes spending their cotton money in gambling and juke joint, Saturday night, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta

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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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01/01/1939
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Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
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Clarksdale (Miss.), 34.20000, -90.57083
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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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