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Title

Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman) Photographs, Item 67; ca. 1930s

Archival Description

Parchman Penitentiary. Female prisoners sewing.

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 women in a room with a doorway in the back left of the image, and windows along two perpendicular walls. The women are wearing light-colored shirts and striped skirts. Some women are sitting and using sewing machines while there are several women standing at a table in the image’s left side, with striped cloth on the tables. There are piles of folded cloth under the table on the image’s left side.

Creator

Unknown

Date

ca. 1930s

Identifier

98995_photo

Rights

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

Credit: Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives & History