Mule drawn cultivator [graphic] / Jack Pavoa [photographer]. [1939]

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Mule drawn cultivator [graphic] / Jack Pavoa [photographer]. [1939]

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Mule drawn cultivator at Wilson Farm, Mississippi County, Arkansas. A July 1, 1936 article in the Blytheville Courier News stated that all farming at Wilson was done by blacks (with the exception of farm managers who were white) with mules using very few gasoline operated implements or tractors.

1 copy negative : b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.)

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Arkansas History Commission

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Lee Wilson & Company.

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Arkansas History Commission

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The Arkansas History Commission was created by the General Assembly in 1905. Inspired and guided during its early years by John Hugh Reynolds, the commission is the official archives of the state, responsible for collecting and preserving the source materials of the history of Arkansas. From the description of Arkansas History Commission records, 1905-1984 [microform]. (Arkansas History Commission). WorldCat record id: 244818119 ...

Pavoa, Jack,

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Copy negatives of a group of photographs of Wilson Farm, Wilson, Mississippi County, Arkansas, adhered to cloth backings, hole punched and fastened together scrapbook style with metal post binding. By 1936, at the age of fifty, Wilson Farm, controlled by the R.E. Lee Wilson Company owned in trust by the family of its founder Robert Edward Lee Wilson (1863-1933), was one of the largest cotton growing enterprises in the world with 37,000 acres of farms, 25,000 of which were in the Wilson vicinity....