People hanging a bag of cotton on a scale.

Mrs. Minnie B. Guice is beside the scale, making notes in a book. The scale is hanging on the side of a trailer, which is parked at Mrs. Guice's cotton field near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County, Alabama. The photograph was shot from above. It was taken for one of two photo spreads that appear...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peppler, Jim
Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/10713
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Summary:Mrs. Minnie B. Guice is beside the scale, making notes in a book. The scale is hanging on the side of a trailer, which is parked at Mrs. Guice's cotton field near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County, Alabama. The photograph was shot from above. It was taken for one of two photo spreads that appeared in the issues of The Southern Courier for September 10-11, 1966 ("Cotton Fields Part One"), and September 17-18, 1966 ("Cotton Fields Part Two"). Both issues are available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No37_1966_09_10.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No38_1966_09_17.pdf