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Resting the mules which get too hot when the cotton is high in mid-summer cultivation. King and Anderson Plantation near Clarksdale. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

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Resting the mules which get too hot when the cotton is high in mid-summer cultivation. King and Anderson Plantation near Clarksdale. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1940

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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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