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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: 13 5/8 × 10 3/4" (34.6 × 27.3 cm)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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