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Title

Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman) Photographs, Item 25; 1929

Archival Description

"Alfalfa." Parchman Farm. Nine male workers in alfalfa field. Pile of cut alfalfa, baling machine and stacks of baled alfalfa on ground and loaded on truck.

Detailed Description

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman) Photographs (PI/PEN/P37.4). Black-and-white photograph of black and white men in a field baling alfalfa. Some are standing behind or next to a large, unbaled pile of alfalfa towards the image’s left side, while, in the image’s right side, others stand on baled alfalfa and one black man stands in the bed of a truck. One man is tossing loose alfalfa into the machine with a pitchfork. The men are wearing hats with either shirts and pants or shirts and overalls. There is a dense tree line in the image’s background.

Creator

Unknown

Date

1929

Identifier

97273_photo

Rights

NO KNOWN COPYRIGHT; https://rightsstatements.org/page/NKC/1.0/

Credit: Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives & History