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Cotton Receipt, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta [Photograph]

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Cotton Receipt, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta [Photograph]

DATE: October 1939

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ABSTRACT: Farmers were given a receipt when a trimmed bale of cotton was delivered to a warehouse for processing and shipment to a cotton factory. The receipt represented the value of the bale and could be used as cash.

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Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990. Cotton Receipt, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta [Photograph], . https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/archival/5182/item/527343, accessed on April 16, 2025.

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NOTE: Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott.

Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection.

DIGITAL COPY SOURCE: Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information, Black-and-White Negatives Collection

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RIGHTS: No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)

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