Mississippi Cotton
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content: Division of Agriculture and Extractive Industries Audiovisual Collection
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content: Division of Agriculture and Extractive Industries Audiovisual Collection / Series 1: Motion Picture Film
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content: 1991, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Amateur shot footage depicting operations at a cotton plantation in Mississippi in the 1940s. Comprises six camera original reels as well as compilation film prints created by an outside vendor for the former Division of Agriculture and Extractive Industries from the original footage in the early 1990s. Descriptive titles for the original footage were devised from labels on original housing which was consistently labeled "Cotton Plantation" with roll numbers indicated on original leader. The compilation reels appear to have been formally titled "Mississippi Cotton" at the time of their creation by the former Division of Agriculture and Extractive Industries. The name "Frank Mitchener" appears on much of the original leader but labeling is unclear and the source of the original footage has not been definitively determined by the Archives Center. Corresponding video copies can be found in series 2.