Mississippi Historic photos, documents, and people

Interior of Magnolia (Miss) Cotton Mills spinning room. See the little ones scattered through the mill. All work. See also other Magnolia photos and labels. Location: Magnolia, Mississippi.

Tractor on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. One man and a four-row cultivator does the work of eight men and eight mules under the one man-one mule system which is still common

Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi. Clarence Weems, a young co-operator on the farm. He remembers the evictions in Arkansas, for his father was beaten and disappeared

All these work in Peerless Oyster Co. Had to get the photo while bosses were at dinner, as they refused to permit children in the photos. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Bessie, four years old, and Marietta, seven years old, both shuck oysters in Barataria Canning Company. Mother is Mrs. Ida Thompson, Baltimore. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

The Singing River, the famous Singing River, Pascagoula located on U. S. 90 between Biloxi, Miss. and Mobile, Ala. is known through the world for its very mysterious music.

One of the workers (not the youngest) in the Kosciusko, Miss., cotton mills. The superintendent objected to my photographing the workers. Location: Kosciusko, Mississippi.

Frank Obin, eight years old. Shucks oysters at Pass Christian. I found him asleep on the floor of the shed at 4 o'clock one morning. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi.

A crew of two hundred colored hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at one dollar a day. Many of them are ex-tenant farmers. Near Leland, Mississippi

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