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Negroes cut each others hair in front of plantation store after being paid off on Saturday, Mileston Plantation, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, November 1939

Negroes cut each others hair in front of plantation store after being paid off on Saturday, Mileston Plantation, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, November 1939

(American, 1910–1990)
1939
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, gelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 18.4 × 24.4 cm (7 1/4 × 9 5/8 in.)
Credit LineThe Howard Greenberg Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated by the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust
Accession number2018.3513
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPhotographs
Provenance2018, sold by Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 19, 2018)
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