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Saturday afternoon in a negro beer and juke joint, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, November 1939.

Selling fish on Saturday afternoon, Lexington, Holmes County, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, November 1939.

Shooting pool on Saturday afternoon, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta November 1939.

Post office inside plantation store, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, November 1939.

Saturday afternoon, Lexington, Holmes County, Mississippi Delta, October 1939.

Daughter of Cube Walker, Negro TP Client Belzoni, Miss. Delta, bringing home cow from the fields in the evening, Nov. 1939.

Wagon load of cotton coming out of the field in the evening, Mileston Plantation, Mississippi Delta, Oct. 1939

Negro section of town, Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi, November 1939.

Mississippi Delta, on Mississippi Highway No. 1 between Greenville and Clarksdale. Negro laborer's family being moved from Arkansas to Mississippi by white tenant

Chitterling, fish and sugar cane on street in Negro Section, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta; On a Saturday afternoon, November 1939.

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Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The FSA (Farm Security Administration) is famous for its well known influential photography program that portrayed the challenges of rural poverty. Creating false perceptions of individuals (A prime example of situational manipulation), photographers were hired to report and document the plight of poor farmers. In 1935–44, eleven photographers would come to work on this project. They were: Arthur Rothstein, Theo Jung, Ben Shahn, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Carl Mydans, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano, John Vachon, and John Collier. In total, the black-and-white portion of the collection consists of about 175,000 black-and-white film negatives.

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mississippi sugarcane cafes african american men clarksdale miss schomburg center for research in black culture photographs and prints division farm security administration collection sugar cane negro section mississippi delta saturday afternoon united states farm security administration sponsor wolcott marion post 1910 1990 photographer gelatin silver prints fish sugar cane street negro section clarksdale delta saturday afternoon farm security administration great depression photographs great depression images black history month black history month ultra high resolution high resolution race relations ichthyology zoological illustration food food vendors agriculture vendors farmers nypl
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Date

1910 - 1919
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United States. Farm Security Administration, Sponsor
Wolcott, Marion Post (1910-1990), Photographer
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America, 1930s

Photographs of Farm Security Administration
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New York Public Library
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http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/
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Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")

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Wife of tenant farmer living near Muskogee picking over tomatoes before peeling for canning. Refer to general caption number 20

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mississippi sugarcane cafes african american men clarksdale miss schomburg center for research in black culture photographs and prints division farm security administration collection sugar cane negro section mississippi delta saturday afternoon united states farm security administration sponsor wolcott marion post 1910 1990 photographer gelatin silver prints fish sugar cane street negro section clarksdale delta saturday afternoon farm security administration great depression photographs great depression images black history month black history month ultra high resolution high resolution race relations ichthyology zoological illustration food food vendors agriculture vendors farmers nypl