Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns, wa.
Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns, waiting to be paid off and buy supplies, for cotton picking inside plantation store, Friday night, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939. Wolcott, Marion Post -- Photographer. October 1939 Notes: FSA Miss. 8/14 M. Post 1939-40 2/3 4718 (Oct. 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?1211913 Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)
- Date
- 1939-10
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- New York Public Library
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- FSA/OWI
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 760 × 589 pixels
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