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A couple of women picking cotton in a field, Cotton picking, Pulaski County, Arkansas

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Additional information on caption card: Use copy negative in LC-USF331 for this image.

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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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arkansas pulaski county cotton pickers nitrate negatives lot 1657 ben shahn united states resettlement administration photo ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress
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1940 - 1945
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arkansas
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Library of Congress
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https://www.loc.gov/
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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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arkansas pulaski county cotton pickers nitrate negatives lot 1657 ben shahn united states resettlement administration photo ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress