Cashiers Paying off Cotton Pickers in Marcella Plantation Store, Mileston, Mississippi
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Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, upper left-right, in graphite: "Cashiers paying off cotton pickers in Marcella plantation store, / Mileston, Miss. 1939"; verso, upper center, in graphite: "Archivally processed / Selenium toned"; verso, center, in graphite: "52908D"; verso, lower right, in graphite: Marion Post Wolcott"
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