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Fish restaurant for colored in the quarter cotton hoers are recruited. Memphis, Tennessee

Fish restaurant for colored in the quarter cotton hoers are recruited....

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A crew of 200 hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at a dollar a day. Many of these are ex-tenant farmers

A crew of 200 hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cot...

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Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkansas

Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkan...

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Cotton hoers on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland, Mississippi. Hoers in groups of two hundred or more are hauled over daily from Greenville

Cotton hoers on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland, Mississippi. Hoer...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Cotton hoers from Memphis bound for the Wilson Plantation in Arkansas, forty-three miles away

Cotton hoers from Memphis bound for the Wilson Plantation in Arkansas,...

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A crew of two hundred colored hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at one dollar a day. Many of them are ex-tenant farmers. Near Leland, Mississippi

A crew of two hundred colored hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plant...

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These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi

These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clar...

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These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi

These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clar...

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Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations. Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations. Hoers carry their lunches. They return about 8 p.m. Mississippi

Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plan...

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Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations. Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations. Hoers carry their lunches. They return about 8 p.m. Mississippi

Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plan...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Cotton hoers leaving the fields for lunch. Farmer's daughter and laborers, whites and blacks. Georgia

Cotton hoers leaving the fields for lunch. Farmer's daughter and labor...

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Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers, cotton hoers. Leave field at the end of the day. Wages twenty cents per hour

Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers, cotton hoe...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A crew of two hundred colored hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at one dollar a day. Many of them are ex-tenant farmers. Near Leland, Mississippi

A crew of two hundred colored hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plant...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi

These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clar...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Furnish room" in the Negro quarter from which cotton hoers are recruited. Memphis, Tennessee

"Furnish room" in the Negro quarter from which cotton hoers are recrui...

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Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers. Cotton hoers.  Leave the field at the end of the day. Wages twenty cents an hour

Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers. Cotton hoe...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton hoers on the Mississippi Delta. They worked from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar

Cotton hoers on the Mississippi Delta. They worked from 6 a.m. to 7 p....

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lunchtime for cotton hoers. Mississippi Delta

Lunchtime for cotton hoers. Mississippi Delta

Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Truck loads of cotton hoers going from Memphis, Tennessee into Arkansas

Truck loads of cotton hoers going from Memphis, Tennessee into Arkansa...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton hoers on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland, Mississippi. Hoers in groups of two hundred or more are hauled over daily from Greenville

Cotton hoers on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland, Mississippi. Hoer...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers. Cotton hoers leave the field at end of the day. Wages twenty cents an hour

Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers. Cotton hoe...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro cotton hoers are taken from the Delta cotton towns to the cotton fields. Most of them are displaced sharecroppers swept off the plantations by tractor farming, depression, crop reduction program, etc. Greenville, Mississippi

Negro cotton hoers are taken from the Delta cotton towns to the cotton...

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Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to another. Mississippi Delta

Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A crew of 200 hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton for one dollar a day. Many of these are ex-tenant farmers

A crew of 200 hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cot...

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

Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkansas

Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkan...

Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A crew of two hundred colored hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at one dollar a day. Many of them are ex-tenant farmers. Near Leland, Mississippi

A crew of two hundred colored hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plant...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

These cotton hoers work only seasonally on the plantations. The rest of the year they live on odd jobs and relief. Memphis, Tennessee

These cotton hoers work only seasonally on the plantations. The rest o...

Public domain photograph of Tennessee, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi

These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clar...

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Lunchtime for cotton hoers. Mississippi Delta

Lunchtime for cotton hoers. Mississippi Delta

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Cotton hoers from Memphis, Tennessee are carried by trucks to the Arkansas plantations

Cotton hoers from Memphis, Tennessee are carried by trucks to the Arka...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lunchtime for cotton hoers. Mississippi Delta

Lunchtime for cotton hoers. Mississippi Delta

Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description