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White migrant agricultural worker from Texas studying the map while stopped for lunch on the roadside east of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2024-08-12
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Typical southeastern Georgia farm with newly harvested field of oats (LOC)
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- 7 comments
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Typical southeastern Georgia farm with newly harvested field of oats (LOC)
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- 317,577 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi (LOC)
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- 23 comments
- 365 favorites
- 140,638 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2009-05-20
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Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 84 favorites
- 108,285 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill], Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 41 favorites
- 106,637 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill], Tenn. (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 43 favorites
- 99,347 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi (LOC)
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- 12 comments
- 356 favorites
- 97,325 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2009-05-20
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A train bringing copper ore out of the mines, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 63 favorites
- 93,832 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Day-laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 45 favorites
- 91,173 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 53 favorites
- 90,181 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill], Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 54 favorites
- 90,021 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Miss. (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 78 favorites
- 89,591 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A train bringing copper ore out of the mine, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 34 favorites
- 89,172 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Round dance between squares at dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 108 favorites
- 88,966 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Negroes fishing in creek near cotton plantations outside Belzoni, Miss. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 52 favorites
- 88,676 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Miss. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 62 favorites
- 85,594 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Negroes fishing in creek near cotton plantations outside Belzoni, Miss. Delta (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 42 favorites
- 85,428 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill], Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 8 favorites
- 84,944 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Soda jerker flipping ice cream into malted milk shakes. Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 171 favorites
- 83,872 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2009-05-20
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A train bringing copper ore out of the mine, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 10 favorites
- 83,652 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Backyard of Negro tenant's home, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Miss. Delta (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 85 favorites
- 75,502 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 24 favorites
- 75,222 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 33 favorites
- 75,182 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 30 favorites
- 73,823 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 21 favorites
- 71,160 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 11 favorites
- 70,960 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 15 favorites
- 70,811 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 17 favorites
- 70,205 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34341, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, different, time, cotton, marionpostwolcott, marion, wolcott, clarksdale, mississippi, cottonpicking, farm, 1939, cottonfields, daylaborers, sepia, harvest, labor, picking, coahomacounty
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Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. Delta (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 15 favorites
- 68,679 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 6 favorites
- 67,032 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Photographs, second annual exhibition, Sioux City Camera Club (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 115 favorites
- 56,845 views
- Date taken: 1936
- Date uploaded: 2012-01-03
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Fourth of July picnic by a group of Negroes, St. Helena Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 10 favorites
- 54,717 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Identified! [Woman with large topaz crystal from Brazil, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)
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- 15 comments
- 57 favorites
- 31,421 views
- Date taken: 1938
- Date uploaded: 2015-01-30
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Fourth of July, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Rural filling stations become community centers and general loafing grounds. The men in the baseball suits are on a local team which will play a game nearby. They are called the Cedargrove Team (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 48 favorites
- 28,321 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-01
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