Mississippi Historic photos, documents, and people

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African-Americans fishing in creek near cotton plantations outside Belzoni, Miss.

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Brantley's Dry Cleaning, Brantley's Cold Storage, see where your furs are stored

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Noon hour, Winona (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Location: Winona, Mississippi.

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Hinds County, Mississippi. "Cotton rules the world," says this sharecropper woman

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Vicksburg National Cemetery, 17,000 Union soldiers buried here, Vicksburg, Miss.

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These boys help in Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. Location: Tupelo, Mississippi.

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Part of the force at Yazoo City Yarn Mills. Location: Yazoo City, Mississippi.

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Cotton sharecropper. She was born "two years before the surrender." Mississippi

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Cotton sharecropper. She was born "two years before the surrender." Mississippi