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Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, Mississippi Delta by Dorothea Lange — VisualArtsDB

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Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, Mississippi Delta

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Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, Mississippi Delta

1936

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2" (19 × 24.1 cm)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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