People standing beneath a scale that is attached to side of the trailer filled with cotton.
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@ Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Peppler, Jim
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The trailer is parked at the field of Mrs. Minnie B. Guice 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 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
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1966 September
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Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph CollectionRecord Contributed By
Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130Keywords
- African Americans
- Agriculture
- Business & Industry
- Cotton
- Employment
- Montgomery County (Ala.)
- Mount Meigs (Ala.)