Cotton Harvest

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Workers harvest cotton in Taylor County in December 1959. Cotton remains a major agricultural commodity in the area, along with peaches, poultry, and eggs.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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Cotton Harvest

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