A striking documentary photograph by Marion Post Wolcott capturing the physical labor of cotton pickers on Mileston Plantation in the Mississippi Delta, their figures bent under the weight of bulging sacks of harvested cotton. The gelatin silver print renders the scene in rich tonal contrasts, emphasizing the textures of the landscape and the workers' clothing against the expansive cotton fields. The image stands as a powerful testament to the grueling conditions of agricultural labor in the American South during the mid-twentieth century.