farmworkers

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/164287965# - this pic appeared in a photographic montage in the Sydney Mail on 7th December, 1910. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165395904 - a very similar pic...taken on the same occasion...appeared in the Sydney Mail on 15th April, 1908...the location appears to have been Haywood brothers' farm, 'Oaklands', near Pambula, on the NSW South coast.

Please reconsider retitling this photo to spell out Japanese. The abbreviation chosen is offensive to many and reverts to the dismissive terminology used during WWII and is out of place in this day and age.

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I agree, "Jap" is a very insensitive, unkind, and uneducated way to describe a Japanese person. It's commonly used to express disrespectfulness, hatefulness or displeasure towards a person because he/she is a Japanese. It was obviously spelled out on the photo itself, and you weren't pressed for space, so was it necessary to abbreviate like so? If you insist on abbreviating, please use the internationally accepted abbreviation, "JP", or presenting the complete spelling.

also here:

www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3477962069/
www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3295495556/
www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2162728775/

Indeed, this is well documented as negative in standard English usage, and should not be used as such in this context. Please change it.

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jap

jap
2 entries found.

1. Jap
2. JAP


Main Entry:
Jap Listen to the pronunciation of Jap
Pronunciation:
\ˈjap\
Function:
noun or adjective
Date:
1886

usually disparaging : japanese

Thanks for understanding that no offense is intended. We retain the original title of a photograph as part of preserving the historical record. The Bain News Service photo titles are available from several sources—typed in the set of caption cards consulted while making the scans, hand-written on an older set of cards, and etched on the negatives themselves. Abbreviated spellings are common in each source, but, in this case, the sources differ. Transcribing the fuller title directly from the negative provides more information, and that source is now used.

Just doesn't look like Mississippi to me. Maybe Florida? I'm looking at the grass and the trees and also the clothing. If it is Mississippi, it is probably southern Mississippi. I'm from Mississippi by the way.

The trees appear to be Norfolk / Australian pines, which are common (but non-native) to south Florida.

Looks like South Mississippi, where some of my family is from. Same kind of sandy ground and pines.

1940 was < my time. I notice Ms. Marion Post Wolcott photographed in Natchez, Clarksdale, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky so the government department might have it wrong. I was raised near Greenville and worked in the fields with the agricultural black folk. They dressed better in the 1960s than in WW2.. The trees are bending in the wind so I cannot ID them. They aren't red cedar or anything common here. If it was near the coast the gravel would be oyster shells (say if it was Stone or George County).

The truck is a 34-36 International flatbed.