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November 1936. "Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California." Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the FSA. View full size.
That's what you call "scrap cotton," what's left after a few pickings.
I've seen some here in Virginia and in North Carolina and that is one ugly crop.
A great Lange photo with presence and insight.
Kind of puts things in perspective, doesn't it? My new granite countertop has a scratch in it and I was all set to complain. Then I saw this.
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