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	The New Deal Farm Security Administration in the Lower Mississippi Delta: Reading the Photographic Record by Jane Adams D. Gorton
	Photographs by Marion Post Wolcott documenting what we would now call the "cotton commodity chain". Shot October and November, 1939 unless otherwise noted. This series demonstrates her careful documentation of the process of making oil from cottonseed, a selection of her shots of classing cotton, and a selection of her photos of black pickers enjoying their earnings. She has many other photos of people picking cotton in the fields, of cotton pickers, of workers being recruited and trucked to the fields, riding bosses, weighing cotton, etc. Over 300 of her photos directly deal with "cotton" in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Memphis.
		Cotton Row Street in Leland, Mississippi Delta. LC-USF34- 052506-D Staple Cotton Cooperative Association. Leland, Mississippi Delta. LC-USF34- 052507-D Rex Theatre for colored people. Leland, Mississippi Delta. LC-USF34- 052508-D Good Hope Plantation. Manager paying off on Saturday in plantation store. Mileston Plantation, Mississippi Delta. LC-USF34- 052509-D Blowing cotton seed from gin into freight cars for shipment to cotton seed oil plant, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi.. LC-USF33- 030609-M1 Blowing cotton seed from gin into freight cars for shipment to cotton seed oil plant, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. LC-USF33- 030610-M3 Cotton seed from the gin being transferred from truck to freight cars for shipment to cotton seed oil plants, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi.LC-USF33- 030611-M3 Emptying cotton seed from wagon to freight that will take it to the cotton seed oil plant. Nitta Yuma, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. LC-USF33- 030571-M1 Taking cotton seed out of new seed house to be taken to the cotton seed oil plant. Hopson Plantation, Mississippi Delta, near Clarksdale. LC-USF34- 052476-D Stacks of cottonseed oil meal cakes in oil plant. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta. LC-USF34- 052499-D Cottonseed oil plant near Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta. LC-USF34- 052491-D Tanks of cottonseed oil outside plant. Clarksdale, Mississippi, Delta. LC-USF34- 052517-D Tanks of cottonseed oil outside plant. Clarksdale, Mississippi, Delta. LC-USF34- 052516-D Bagging the cottonseed meal in oil plant. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta. LC-USF34- 052521-D Oil being pressed from cottonseed in plant near Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta. LC-USF34- 052565-D Truckload of cottonseed coming into cottonseed oil plant. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta. LC-USF34- 052492-D Cakes of cottonseed meal which is fed to cattle in oil plant. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta. LC-USF34- 052501-D Rolls of lint from the cottonseed used in making of ammunitions and various cellulose products. Oil plant, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta. LC-USF34- 052523-D Sampling cotton in classing room of cotton factor's office. Memphis, Tennessee LC-USF33- 030645-M3. Sampling and classing cotton in classing rooms of cotton factor's office, Memphis, Tennessee. LC-USF33- 030646-M3 Cotton factor's office on Cotton Row, Front Street, Memphis, Tennessee. LC-USF33- 030612-M3 Negroes gambling with their cotton money in a juke joint outside of Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta. LC-USF34- 052487-D Negroes spending their cotton money in gambling in juke joint. Saturday night, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta. LC-USF34- 052559-D Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi. LC-USF34- 052594-D
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