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Josh Taylor, Negro Foreman who has been on place for fifty three years, Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi.

Josh Taylor, Negro Foreman who has been on place for fifty three years...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Selling fish on Saturday afternoon, Lexington, Holmes County, Mississi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Part of cotton gin with wagonloads of cotton waiting in background at Delta and Pineland Company, Scott, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939.

Part of cotton gin with wagonloads of cotton waiting in background at ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Saturday afternoon in a negro beer and juke joint, Clarksdale, Mississ...

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

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

Wagon load of cotton coming out of the field in the evening, Mileston ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Post office inside plantation store, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Nove...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

African American cotton plantation workers, hired as day laborers, walking next to cotton field at Hopson Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, August 1940.
African American cotton plantation worker, hired as a day laborer, riding a mule and holding down a sack of cotton in the cotton field at Nugent Plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939.

African American cotton plantation worker, hired as a day laborer, rid...

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

White laborer of the Mississippi Delta. Issaquena County, Mississippi

White laborer of the Mississippi Delta. Issaquena County, Mississippi

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Mississippi Delta, on Mississippi Highway No. 1 between Greenville and...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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.

Interior of school on Mileston Plantation; School begins very late in ...

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

Dog run cabins of the Mississippi Delta. This plantation has been mechanized and these cabins abandoned

Dog run cabins of the Mississippi Delta. This plantation has been mech...

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

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

Saturday afternoon, Lexington, Holmes County, Mississippi Delta, Octob...

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

King and Anderson Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, August 1940.

King and Anderson Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississip...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Chitterling, fish and sugar cane on street in Negro Section, Clarksdal...

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

Resting the mules which get too hot when the cotton is high in mid-summer cultivation; King and Anderson Plantation, near Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, August 1940.
Abandoned tenant house on a mechanized plantation of the Mississippi Delta

Abandoned tenant house on a mechanized plantation of the Mississippi D...

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

Repairing tire on road near Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939.

Repairing tire on road near Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississip...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns, waiting to b...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of street life, food vendor, city market, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Company stores and offices and clinic of Delta Pine Company, Cotton Plantation, Scott, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939.

Company stores and offices and clinic of Delta Pine Company, Cotton Pl...

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

Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns, waiting to be paid off for cotton picking and buy supplies inside the plantation store, Friday night, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, November 1939.

Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns, waiting to b...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

The delta land of the Mississippi River is the largest alluvial section in the world, an area of 18 miles by 300 miles. It produces 500,000 bales of cotton annually.

The delta land of the Mississippi River is the largest alluvial sectio...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to another. Mississippi Delta

Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to ...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

The tractor is driving cotton workers off the land. Mississippi Delta, Aldridge Plantation [near Leland]

The tractor is driving cotton workers off the land. Mississippi Delta,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of men standing around a motorcycle, Hillhouse, Mississippi Delta cooperative farm

A group of men standing around a motorcycle, Hillhouse, Mississippi De...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

School in center of the mechanized plantation area of the Mississippi Delta

School in center of the mechanized plantation area of the Mississippi ...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Dog run cabins of the Mississippi Delta. This plantation has been mechanized and these cabins abandoned

Dog run cabins of the Mississippi Delta. This plantation has been mech...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

A black and white photo of a group of men working in a field, Hillhouse, Mississippi Delta cooperative farm

A black and white photo of a group of men working in a field, Hillhous...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sharecropper of the Mississippi Delta. Issaquena County, Mississippi

Sharecropper of the Mississippi Delta. Issaquena County, Mississippi

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One of the sharecropper's houses with sweet potatoes and cotton on the porch; Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Spring 1939.

One of the sharecropper's houses with sweet potatoes and cotton on the...

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

Lunchtime for cotton hoers. Mississippi Delta

Lunchtime for cotton hoers. Mississippi Delta

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

School in center of the mechanized plantation area of the Mississippi Delta

School in center of the mechanized plantation area of the Mississippi ...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

Mississippi Delta, on Mississippi Highway No. 1 between Greenville and...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to another. Mississippi Delta

Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to ...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Plantation cotton cabin (Negro). Mississippi Delta, near Vicksburg

Plantation cotton cabin (Negro). Mississippi Delta, near Vicksburg

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Passe A Loutre, Mississippi Delta, Louisiana : from a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A.D. Bache, Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States

Passe A Loutre, Mississippi Delta, Louisiana : from a trigonometrical ...

Public domain image of a nautical map, chart, navigation pilot guide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lunchtime for cotton hoers. Mississippi Delta

Lunchtime for cotton hoers. Mississippi Delta

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More