mississippi

100 photos and 32 illustrations tagged mississippi, from 13 members of Flickr Commons.

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[African American cotton plantation workers, hired as day la...

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  • stephaniesmoney said:
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Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, five years old, and a mountain of child-labor oyster shells behind him. He worked last year. Understands not a word of English. Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi. (LOC)

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  • EmBeesWeb said:
    Thank you for sharing.
  • Joe O'Malley said:
    Those were the days, I used to work with him, but then I took an arrow to the knee !.
  • annet said:
    Joe O'Malley are you from 1905? AND here on flickr? WOW!
  • ☆Cydril☆ said:
    Wow, what a tough little guy. All those oyster shells and bare feet--ouch!
  • Gerald Fischer said:
    It makes me sad to think about all this stolen childhoods.....

Dennis Murphree (LOC)

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  • Art Siegel said:
    Around the time of the date on the negative, he became governor of Mississippi when the incumbent governor died. "Dennis Herron Murphree (January 6, 1886 – February 9, 1949) was a Mississippi politician. He was twice elected to the lieutenant governorship, once in 1923 and again in 1939. In each instance, he succeeded the governor who died in office and completed the term of his predecessor. He was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1911 to 1923. In March 1927, he became Governor of Mississippi after the death of incumbent Henry L. Whitfield" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Murphree