Mississippi Historic photos, documents, and people

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An evicted Arkansas sharecropper now settled at Hill House, Mississippi

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School in Mill District, Laurel, Miss. Location: Laurel, Mississippi.

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Outlet works, Sardis Dam, looking downstream, near Batesville, Miss.

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Motor boat racing in lower lake, Sardis Lake, near Batesville, Miss.

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Gulf Sands Motel, air conditioned… On the beach, Pascagoula, Miss.

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White laborer of the Mississippi Delta. Issaquena County, Mississippi

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Backyard of tenant's home, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Miss. Delta

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Sharecropper of the Mississippi Delta. Issaquena County, Mississippi

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Plantation overseer. Mississippi Delta, near Clarksdale, Mississippi