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Me parece una fantástica foto que documenta una época ... PRECIOSA Saludos cordiales

It could as easily been 1840 as 1940 in this picture. Not much had changed for the African American.

They wonderful pictures, the last time I pick cotton was in 1965, I spend all of my youth, and my teens years picking cotton, I have a picture taken in1950 of my oldest brother on top of cotton, I'm writing a book of my cotton days, I thing this part of our history, of the Mexican, American cotton pickers, not to much is know about us, from the early forties to the middle of the sixties, those were our golden years, than the cotton machine, kind took over, and the Vietnam War, because it took most our young men to War. I was looking at the cotton sacks, our were made different, we had a four inch strap to protect our shoulder, a wire going half way around the mouth of sack, this way it alway stay open, making much easier to throw the cotton, back inside the sack without looking back. I just made my first cotton, made out of duck Canvas, it nine feet long. Thanks again for all the beauiful pictures, Martin Chapa, El Milero

Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumping The cotton is high Oh your daddys rich Your mamas good looking I said hush little baby Dont you cry One of these mornings Youre bound to rise up singing Then youll spread your wings And take to the sky But til that morning Nothings going to harm you no With daddy and mama standing by Summertime (sweet summertime) And the living is easy (living is easy) Fish are jumping The cotton is high (sky high) Oh your daddys rich (your daddys rich) And your mamas good looking (your mamas good looking) I said hush little baby Dont you cry Dont you cry (dont you cry) Summertime (sweet summertime) Summertime (sweet summertime) Summertime

Its October according to the info above not summer. The month of October would be a slack time for ag workers in 1939 since the cotton crop would be slowly maturing without the plant steroids we have today. Its also the time of least rainfall. Cotton picking done by hand would start in the next month or so, I believe. The creek could be Wasp Lake which is an ancient Yazoo River channel. Or perhaps Afchafalya Bayou.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Creative Imagery (Fav 1,Comment on 1), and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Those look more like telegraph lines.