Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations; Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations; Hoers carry their lunches; They return about 8 p.m. Mississippi.
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Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations; Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations; Hoers carry their lunches; They return about 8 p.m. Mississippi.
Collection
Farm Security Administration Collection
Mississippi.
Dorothea Lange.
Names
United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lange, Dorothea (Photographer)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1937
Library Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Farm Security Administration Collection
Subjects
Mississippi
Trucks
African American men
African American women
Cotton plantation workers
Day laborers
Greenville (Miss.)
Genres
Notes
Content: LOC negative # : 17542-E.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 photographic print : Gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
Gelatin silver prints
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b22609769
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c6262670-c612-012f-beb5-58d385a7bc34
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations; Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations; Hoers carry their lunches; They return about 8 p.m. Mississippi." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1937. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c6262670-c612-012f-beb5-58d385a7bc34
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1937). Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations; Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations; Hoers carry their lunches; They return about 8 p.m. Mississippi. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c6262670-c612-012f-beb5-58d385a7bc34
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations; Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations; Hoers carry their lunches; They return about 8 p.m. Mississippi." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 11, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c6262670-c612-012f-beb5-58d385a7bc34
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