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Libsohn, Sol
American (1914-2001)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Natches, Mississippi. After right of way for Cranfield-Gibson's Landing Pipe Line is surveyed the "brush gang" goes along the line and cuts a 30 foot wide clearing through the trees and brush. These are left for the bulldozers to shove aside.

1944
gelatin silver print
18.7 x 19.0 cm.
Museum Collection, by exchange
78:1069:0036

NON-GEH NUMBER: 16215

INSCRIPTION: print verso-(rubberstamp) "Please Credit Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) Photo By Libsohn" "Please Return Unused Photos To Standard Oil Co., (N.J.) Public Relations Dept. 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York 30, New York" (applied typed caption) "Libsohn Cranfield-Gibson's Landing Pipe Line, Natchez, Miss. Nov.,1944" "16215 (This eight inch discharge line which starts at Cranfield passes Natchez a little to the north and goes under the Mississippi to Gibson's Landing..."

NOTES: Catalogued 1/2001, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
people, clearing land
landscape, rural

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