Mississippi Historic photos, documents, and people

Vennie and Verdie Yelverton. Eleven and thirteen years old. (See label 2079). Location: Laurel, Mississippi.

Noon hour at Priscilla Knitting Mills, Meridian, Miss. Some of the girls. Location: Meridian, Mississippi.

Housing conditions in mill settlement, Water Valley, Miss., not good. Location: Water Valley, Mississippi.

White and blacks solve problems together on the Sherwood Eddy cotton cooperative of Hill House, Mississippi

The beginning of an educational program at the newly-started Hill House cooperative experiment. Mississippi

Father taking it easy at home while his two girls work in the cotton mill. Location: Tupelo, Mississippi.

These little ones, and many others, work in the Peerless Oyster Co. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Family of one of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas who has been resettled at Hill House, Mississippi

Noon hour. Two of the young workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Laurel, Miss. Location: Laurel, Mississippi.

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