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Image Not Available for A comparison is being taken in the cotton fields of Mississippi between three local workers and an automatic cotton picking machine.
A comparison is being taken in the cotton fields of Mississippi between three local workers and an automatic cotton picking machine.
Image Not Available for A comparison is being taken in the cotton fields of Mississippi between three local workers and an automatic cotton picking machine.

A comparison is being taken in the cotton fields of Mississippi between three local workers and an automatic cotton picking machine.

Creator Associated Press of Berlin
Date1936
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 18 x 24.4 cm (7 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2002
Category
    Object number2002/2847
    LocationNot currently on display

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