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A black and white photo of men loading a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

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A black and white photo of people standing next to a truck, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

A black and white photo of a crowd of people, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

Farmhouse and farmland typical of upper Michigan photographed during a heavy rain

A black and white photo of men loading a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

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Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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tennessee memphis nitrate negatives raleigh memphis tenn photo laborers day laborers cotton mississippi arkansas plantations arkansas plantations season hallan bridge hallan bridge crowds negroes streets trucks drivers bid offer fifty cents fifty cents dollar one dollar farm security administration 1930 s great depression history of arkansas arkansas free images race relations african americans united states history wwi library of congress railway photo archive
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01/01/1939
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Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
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Raleigh (Memphis, Tenn.) ,  35.20583, -89.91361
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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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A black and white photo of a group of men standing next to a truck, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

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tennessee memphis nitrate negatives raleigh memphis tenn photo laborers day laborers cotton mississippi arkansas plantations arkansas plantations season hallan bridge hallan bridge crowds negroes streets trucks drivers bid offer fifty cents fifty cents dollar one dollar farm security administration 1930 s great depression history of arkansas arkansas free images race relations african americans united states history wwi library of congress railway photo archive