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Plantation

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Saturday afternoon in summer on an Arkansas delta plantation

Water barrels on plantation cabin in Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas

Ex-slave and wife who live in a decaying plantation house. Greene County, Georgia

Ex-slave and wife on steps of plantation house now in decay. Greene County, Georgia

Church on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland, Mississippi

This ex-tenant still lives on the plantation but works for wages of one dollar a day. He estimated that he worked about 190 days during 1936. Near Clarksdale, Mississippi

Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. Tractor drivers are not allowed to do anything but drive tractors. Repairs are made by the mechanic at the plantation garage

Abandoned tenant house on a mechanized plantation of the Mississippi Delta

The riding boss. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi

Tractors cultivating cotton. Twenty-two tractors have replaced 130 tenant families on the Aldridge Plantation, near Leland, 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

Plantation cotton cabin. Mississippi Delta, near Vicksburg

A plantation store near Clarksville, Mississippi

Plantation store. Mississippi Delta

African-Americans hanging around the plantation store. Mississippi Delta

Japanese on Sisal Plantation, Hawaii

Harrietta Plantation

Roseville Plantation

Slave Houses, Gregg Plantation

Darby Plantation

Landsford Plantation House

Ravenwood Plantation

Oaklyn Plantation

Oakland Plantation House