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Billboards advertising various brands of fertilizer are seen very frequently all over the South. This one near Laurinburg, North Carolina.

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ArtistMarion Post Wolcott (American, 1910–1990)
TitleBillboards advertising various brands of fertilizer are seen very frequently all over the South. This one near Laurinburg, North Carolina.
DateDecember 1938
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 7/8 × 7 1/2 in. (20 × 19.1 cm)
Credit LineHenry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number79.200.XX.4.6
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A vertical black-and-white photograph depicts a billboard in tall grass with text that reads, “DIXIE GUANO CO. | MFRS. OF HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS | LAURINBURG, N.C.”

A vertical black-and-white photograph depicts a billboard in tall grass with text that reads, “DIXIE GUANO CO. | MFRS. OF HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS | LAURINBURG, N.C.”

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