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Digital ID: 1260029. [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.. Wolcott, Marion Post -- Photographer. October 1939

Notes: Original negative #: 30542-M3; Caption on back: Riders' bring in the sacks of cotton on mule's back from the field to the wagon where it is unloaded and weighed. This is day labor brought in from Greenville, and the pickers receive 75 cents per 100 pounds, on Nugent Plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. October 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.

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Marion Post Wolcott  (1910–1990)  wikidata:Q436687
 
Marion Post Wolcott
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Marion Post; Marion Mary Scott Post Wolcott; Marion Post Wolcott
Description American photographer and artist
Farm Security Administration
Date of birth/death 7 June 1910 / 1910 Edit this at Wikidata 24 November 1990 / 1990 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death New Jersey Santa Barbara
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