White man inspects garden, Wilson, Ark., view #1 [graphic] / Jack Pavoa [photographer]. [1939]

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

White man inspects garden, Wilson, Ark., view #1 [graphic] / Jack Pavoa [photographer]. [1939]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47229241

Jim Crain examines garden belonging to black workers at Wilson Farm, Mississippi County, Arkansas, as a woman works the garden. In the background is a worker's cabin.

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

Arkansas History Commission

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7577433

Arkansas History Commission

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Lee Wilson & Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jx95w7 (corporateBody)

Arkansas History Commission

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bz9whg (corporateBody)

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 ...

Crain, Jimmy, 1940-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s77fpc (person)

Pavoa, Jack,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6059f1s (person)

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....