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State highway officials moving sharecroppers away from roadside to area between the levee and the Mississippi River, New Madrid County, Missouri

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State highway officials moving sharecroppers away from roadside to area between the levee and the Mississippi River, New Madrid County, Missouri

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Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

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01/01/1939
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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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