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Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Miss. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • aware health said:
    That's definitely the same location as the other photos, but I don't know which town it's near. That's the same small child in all the pictures -- orange shirt with a double white stripe at the sleeve; here he has his hat off.
  • mn1952 said:
    Google maps shows Mileston, Mississippi to be Southwest of Tchula on 49 and Marcella close by. Marion Post Wolcott, photographer, also took shots in Merigold, Leland, Belzoni, and Perthshire, which is on highway 1 between Rena Lura and Rosedale.
  • billy_pilgrim said:
    I wish these people could be identified. I'd really like to know how their lives turned out, especially the little boy.
  • Mitch Snooks said:
    superb!
  • ptrx64 said:
    Nice picture.

House in southern U.S. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • lokn4lovfmu51 said:
    what i find surprising is all of these photos, were taken by the war department. what else did they photograph ? we were under government spies , all these years. wonder what will show up after,we are dead,and buried??
  • Tsu Dho Nimh said:
    They were doing a survey of agricultural resources and conditions, and looking for spots away from the coasts to evacuate if they had to.
  • cdw1302 said:
    Agricultural resourse surveys, yes. And documenting the condition of American farmland. Notice in these photos how the vegetation is very sparce. That is because the topsoil has been eroded away after a hundred years of neglecting the soil. Up until the late 1930's many farmers simply removed the trees from the forrests and planted crops on the naturally rich soil. After a few years the natural nutrients were depleted and crops wouldn't grow so the farmer moved to "new ground" and left the old fields. Since there wasn't enough nutrients in the soil to support plants, the soils eroded. During and after WWII fertilizers became more affordable and farmers started practicing better farming techniques.
  • Amy said:
    It looks to me like these photos might have been taken in the southern pinelands, which can have sandy soil and support the type of flora you see pictured.

A Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena Island, S.C. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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