(African American cotton plantation worker, hired as a day l.

African American cotton plantation worker, hired as a day laborer, riding a mule and holding down a sack of cotton in the cotton field at Nugent Plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939. Wolcott, Marion Post -- Photographer. October 1939 Notes: Original negative #: 30542-M3; Caption on back: Riders' bring in the sacks of cotton on mule's back from the field to the wagon where it is unloaded and weighed. This is day labor brought in from Greenville, and the pickers receive 75 cents per 100 pounds, on Nugent Plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. October 1939.' Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / Mississippi. / Marion Post Wolcott. (more info) Repository: The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Photographs and Prints Division. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery. Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1260029 Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)

Date

1939-10

Photographer / author

New York Public Library

Collection

FSA/OWI

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

photograph

Original size

760 × 501 pixels

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