Negroes spending their cotton money in gambling in Juke Joint, Saturday night, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta.
| Artist | Marion Post Wolcott (American, 1910–1990) |
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| Title | Negroes spending their cotton money in gambling in Juke Joint, Saturday night, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta. |
| Date | November 1939 |
| Medium | Gelatin silver print |
| Dimensions | Image: 6 3/4 × 9 3/8 in. (17.1 × 23.8 cm) |
| Credit Line | Henry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University |
| Accession Number | 79.200.XX.4.60 |
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A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a group of dark-skinned men of varying ages lining the left side of a counter. One man faces them on the opposite side. In the line of people, one young man holds up a bottle of alcohol while another man appears to be holding a small stack of cash.
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