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Springtime Comes to the Mississippi

This painting by Clarence Millet depicts ramshackle cottages and shacks inhabited by batture dwellers living rent and tax free on federal lands between the levee and Mississippi River.

Springtime Comes to the Mississippi

Courtesy of Louisiana State Museum

Springtime Comes to the Mississippi. Millet, Clarence (Artist)

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Courtesy of Louisiana State Museum
Date 1955
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