Weight book [graphic] / Jack Pavoa [photographer]. [1939]

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Weight book [graphic] / Jack Pavoa [photographer]. [1939]

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A white woman wearing overalls and head scarf sits on a box beside the back wheel of a cotton wagon holding cotton weight book used to record the weight of cotton as it is weighed in sacks in the fields before being loaded into cotton wagons. A small black boy, probably a cotton picker, leaning on the wagon wheel as he watches.

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

Arkansas History Commission

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Arkansas History Commission

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Lee Wilson & Company.

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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....

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 ...