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Figure 165.
Poster: Weighing-up time
This
photo from an unidentified farm shows weighing-up time—the
happiest time of the day. The
people who picked this cotton owned no interest in the
cotton. They were wage
laborers working for the landowner who weighed each sheet
to see how much each person had earned.
(Photo 5065-49 courtesy of South Carolina Library. Poster by Amelia Vernon, about
2001.) |
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Copyright Amelia Wallace Vernon. All rights reserved, 1998.
Revised, 2007.