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Taking cotton out of the cotton house and putting it on the wagon to be taken to the gin. Marcella Plantation Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

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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 5, frame 2279.

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mississippi holmes county marcella plantation safety film negatives lot 1648 marion post wolcott photo cotton house marcella plantation mileston mississippi delta cotton office of war information farm security administration united states history great depression library of congress vendors farmers agriculture
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01/01/1939
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holmes county
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Library of Congress
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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

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Travelling preacher, Reverend C.L. Bullard, with Jonathan Daniels and construction workers from Monroe, Louisiana. Alexandria, Louisiana

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mississippi holmes county marcella plantation safety film negatives lot 1648 marion post wolcott photo cotton house marcella plantation mileston mississippi delta cotton office of war information farm security administration united states history great depression library of congress vendors farmers agriculture