Interior of school on Mileston Plantation; School begins ver.
Interior of school on Mileston Plantation; School begins very late in the year and attendance is poor until December because the children pick cotton, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, November, 1939. Wolcott, Marion Post -- Photographer. Date depicted: November, 1939 Notes: Original negative #: 52286-D. 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?1260053 Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)
- Date
- 1939-11
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- New York Public Library
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 760 × 584 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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