Negro day laborers brought in truck from nearby towns, waiting to be paid off for cotton picking and buy supplies inside plantation store on Friday night. Marcella Plantation. Mississippi Delta. Mississippi
Summary
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 available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Temp. note: usf34batch6
Film copy on SIS roll 15, frame 434.
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Tags
mississippi
holmes county
marcella plantation
nitrate negatives
lot 1648
marion post wolcott
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negro day laborers
plantation store
mississippi delta
friday night
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great depression
farm security administration
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Date
01/01/1939
Location
holmes county
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
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