(African American cotton plantation workers, hired as day la.

African American cotton plantation workers, hired as day laborers, walking next to cotton field at Hopson Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, August 1940. Wolcott, Marion Post -- Photographer. August 1940 Notes: Original negative #: 54977-E; Schomburg copy negative #: SC-CN-00-039; Caption on back: 'Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for 75 cents to $1.00 a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. August 1940.' 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?1260031 Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)

Date

1940-08

Photographer / author

New York Public Library

Collection

FSA/OWI

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

photograph

Original size

760 × 744 pixels

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