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12 photos tagged cottonpicking, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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Tags that often appear on the same photos:

• cotton
• mississippi
• libraryofcongress
• clarksdale
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• coahomacounty
• farm
• marion
• daylaborers
• 1939
• cottonfields
• mississippidelta
• marionpostwolcott
• delta
• picking
• wolcott
• harvest
• walcott
• field
• labor
• marionpostwalcott
• work
• fields
• plantation

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• The Library of Congress 11 photos
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo

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Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• bluefoxnl said:

  Once in Arkansas, my father stopped the car, led me out to a field like this, showed me how to pick a boll of cotton and said "Now that's the LAST time I ever want to see you do this." I was probably 3 or 4 years old.

• Eric Schmeric said:

  Your father was a nutjob.

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• First Reaction said:

  Great picture!! What camera was used to photograph the amazing piece?

• WestEndAv said:

  ``the amazing piece''?

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• perfgeek said:

  Those look more like telegraph lines.