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Black and white photograph of abandoned and collapsing buildings on 3rd Street in downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Keith Dotson Photography

3rd Street in Clarksdale, Mississippi (A0012566)

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Black and white photograph of a small neighborhood store in downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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8th Street Grocery, Clarksdale, Mississippi (A0012562)

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Black and white photograph of an abandoned 1800s Masonic lodge in a deserted and isolated ghost town.

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Abandoned 1800s Masonic Lodge in a Ghost Town - Black and White Photograph (DSC05105)

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Black and white architectural detail photograph of an apparently defunct auto parts storefront in a small town. Every quadrant of this photograph is rich with textures.

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Abandoned Auto Parts Store: Black and White Photograph (DSC02010)

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Black and white photograph of the front of a ruined, abandoned 1850s Baptist church in the town of Rodney, Mississippi -- a ghost town established along the Mississippi River in the 1820s.

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Abandoned Church Built 1850 - Black and White Photograph (DSC05063)

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Abandoned House Being Swallowed by Kudzu - Black and White Landscape Photograph (DSC05051)

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Abandoned House Being Swallowed by Kudzu - Black and White Landscape Photograph (DSC05051)

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Black and white photograph of an abandoned motel with a broken sign in the Mississippi Delta

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Abandoned Motel in the Mississippi Delta - Black and White Photograph (DSC00282A)

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Black and white photograph of an old, abandoned country store with a rusty tin roof, peeling paint, and tattered screen doors, discovered along a back road.

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Abandoned Old Country Store: Black and White Photograph (KD003001X)

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Black and white photograph of the ruined interior of the abandoned old jail in the small Delta town of Itta Bena, Mississippi.

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Abandoned Old Itta Bena Jail - Black and White Photograph (KD003849X)

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Abandoned R.C. Tibbs & Sons Building in Hushpuckena - Black and White Photograph (KD003707X)

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Abandoned R.C. Tibbs & Sons Building in Hushpuckena - Black and White Photograph (KD003707X)

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Black and white photograph of an old roadside general store in the deep south being consumed by kudzu vines.

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Abandoned Roadside Store Being Swallowed by Kudzu - Black and White Photograph (DSC05048)

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Black and white photograph of an abandoned small town hardware store with a fading painted sign that says Moore Hardware Co., and a broken plastic Firestone sign.

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Abandoned Small Town Hardware Store with Firestone Sign - Black and White Photograph (KD003821X)

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Black and white photograph of the windows of two historic, abandoned storefront buildings in a small town in the deep south.

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Abandoned Storefronts in a Small Town - Black and White Photograph (KD004581X)

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Black and white landscape photograph of a huge old tree standing amidst the briars and brambles of a shallow wetland.

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Ancient Wetland Tree: Black and White Landscape Photograph (DSC01950)

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Black and white photograph of a faded red antique firetruck near Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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Antique Red Firetruck (A0012527)

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Black and white photograph of a beautiful bald cypress tree standing in a shallow lake in the southern United States.

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Bald Cypress Tree in the Deep South - Black and White Landscape Photograph (KD003865X)

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Black and white photograph of a beautiful cypress trees standing in a shallow southern bayou with a bridge visible in the distance.

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Bayou Cypress Trees - Black and White Landscape Photograph (KD003866X)

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Black and white photograph of a rusty old Victorian-era iron fence that has been bent and twisted over the years

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Bent Victorian Iron Fence - Black and White Photograph (KD004471X)

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Black and white photograph of the front of the old Masonic lodge building in the ghost town of Rodney, Mississippi.

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Big Abandoned House in a Ghost Town - Black and White Photograph (DSC05111)

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Big Tree in the Flooded Sunflower River, Clarksdale, Mississippi (A0012750)

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Big Tree in the Flooded Sunflower River, Clarksdale, Mississippi (A0012750)

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Black and white photograph of a huge, abandoned school building in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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Big, Abandoned School Building in Clarksdale, Mississippi (A0012682)

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Black and white photograph of beautiful, barren winter trees on the campus of a former college which is now just abandoned and decaying buildings.

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Black Trees on the Campus of an Abandoned College: Black and White Photograph (KD003051X)

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Black and white photograph of a blue jacket, with a sale tag still attached, hanging on a nail inside an old, abandoned country store.

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Blue Jacket with Sale Tag Hanging in an Abandoned Old Country Store: Black and White Photograph (KD003203)

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Black and white photograph of the grungy doors at the entrance of a blues club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the heart of the Mississippi Delta blues region.

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Blues Club Doors in Clarksdale, Mississippi - Black and White Photograph (A0012635)

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Black and white photograph of a street scene in downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi, with paintings of bluesmen, utility meters, and a fire escape ladder.

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Blues Musicians and an Escape Ladder in Clarksdale, Mississippi (A0012649)

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Black and white photograph of a block of broken mailboxes in the midst of an abandoned and silent apartment complex.

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Broken Mailboxes at an Abandoned Apartment Complex - Black and White Photograph (KD003794X)

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Black and white photograph of a dented lamp in the lawn of a historic red brick church in downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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Church Lamp, Clarksdale, Mississippi (A0012612)

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Black and white photograph of the steps and front of a historic red brick church in downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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Church Steps, Clarksdale Mississippi (A0012610)

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Black and white photograph of a partially collapsed house that once had a post office in the front and living quarters for the postmaster in the back. This is one of a small collection of abandoned ruins in the small Mississippi Delta community of Hushpuckena.

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Collapsing House Among the Trees - Black and White Photograph (KD003702X)

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Black and white photograph of four columns still standing at the long-gone plantation house known as the Windsor Ruins.

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Columns of Windsor Ruins - Black and White Photograph (DSC05013)

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Black and white photograph of cotton fields in the Mississippi Delta near Clarksdale.

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Cotton Fields Near Clarksdale, Mississippi (A0012541)

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Black and white photograph of a beautifully textured old door on an abandoned building covered in cracked and peeling paint.

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Cracked and Peeling Paint on an Old Door: Black and White Photograph (DSC04939)

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Black and white landscape photograph of a tree with a hand-painted sign that says "crawfish," in the Mississippi Delta region, near Tunica.

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Crawfish Tree Near Tunica, Mississippi (A0012470)

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Black and white photograph of an old brick building in a small town painted all across with dark red paint, except for the white wooden shutters on a single window

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Dark Red Wall with White Shutters - Black and White Photograph (KD003135X)

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Black and white photograph of the front porch of a downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi, with an old sofa and lots of graffiti.

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Delta Blues Club with Old Chair on the Porch, Clarksdale, Mississippi (A0012642)

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Black and white architectural photograph of the front façade of the old Delta Feed Company in Greenwood, Mississippi.

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Delta Feed Co. Exterior in Greenwood Mississippi: Black and White Photograph (DSC01984)

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Black and white architectural detail photograph of the painted bricks and wooden shutters on the outside of the old Delta Feed Company in Greenwood, Mississippi.

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Delta Feed Co. Greenwood Mississippi: Black and White Photograph (DSC01992A)

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Black and white photograph of the door into Red's, a contemporary Delta blues juke joint in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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Delta Juke Joint Door, Clarksdale, Mississippi (A0012597)

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Black and white photograph of a large lotus plant leaf that has dried and twisted into a beautifully textured shape, still clinging to its stem. Photographed against a black background for dramatic effect.

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Dried Lotus Leaf on Black Background (A0022012)

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Black and white photograph of broken mailboxes with an eerie, abandoned apartment complex seen in the background.

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Eerie Abandoned Apartment Complex - Black and White Photograph (KD003797X)

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Black and white photograph of a fading old painted sign for Dumas Drug Store atop an abandoned building in downtown Natchez Mississippi

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Fading Dumas Drug Store Sign in Natchez - Black and White Photograph (DSC05330A)

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Black and white architectural detail photograph of the brick side of an abandoned building in a small town with a large fading wall ad advertising a price of 5 cents

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Five Cents Wall Ad: Black and White Photograph (DSC01856)

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Black and white photograph of a collection of flower blossoms that have fallen into the gutter along a city street.

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Flower Blossoms Fallen into a Gutter - Black and White Photograph (DSC05243)

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Black and white photograph of the front of a crooked, old, wooden building found in in a ghost town.

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Front Door and Window of an Abandoned Wooden Building - Black and White Photograph (DSC05128)

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Black and white photograph of the open front entrance of an abandoned 1850s church in a Southern ghost town established along the Mississippi River in the 1820s.

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Front Door of an Abandoned 1850s Church - Black and White Photograph (DSC05066)

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Black and white photograph of rows of broken windows in a very large abandoned school building in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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Front of a Big, Abandoned School in Clarksdale (A0012686)

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Black and white photograph of the front of an abandoned historic mercantile store found along a back road in the deep south with a rusty tin awning, peeling paint, and screen doors.

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Front of an Abandoned Mercantile Store: Black and White Photograph (KD003090X)

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Black and white photograph of a historic storefront in downtown Natchez, Mississippi with a traditional ironwork balcony and plants growing from the roofline.

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Historic Storefront with Ironwork Balcony and Roof Plants - Black and White Photograph (DSC05265A)

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Black and white photograph of abandoned storefronts now in ruins in the small Mississippi Delta community of Hushpuckena.

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Hushpuckena Abandoned Storefronts - Black and White Photograph (KD003712X)

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Black and white photograph of arches with ivy on the grounds of an abandoned high school in Clarksdale, Mississippi built in 1930 and closed in 1999.

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Ivy on Arches of an Abandoned High School - Black and White Photograph (KD004705X)

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Black and white photograph of an old steel water tower covered in ivy in the Mississippi Delta town of Rosedale, Mississippi.

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Ivy-Covered Old Water Tower in Rosedale, Mississippi - Black and White Photograph (KD003783X)

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Black and white photograph of an old filling station turned into a hamburger and hot dog stand in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The hand-painted sign in front reads, "You bite the meat before the bun!"

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Jackson Road Filling Station - Black and White Photograph (DSC00441)

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Black and white photograph of an old wooden shack on the edge of a farm field and being overtaken by the woods.

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Little Cabin on the Edge of the Woods - Black and White Photograph (DSC00265)

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Black and white photograph of the view through the broken windows of an abandoned building in an 1800s-era southern ghost town.

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Looking Out the Broken Windows of an Abandoned Building - Black and White Photograph (DSC05097)

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Black and white architectural detail photograph of an Mesker Iron Works metal column and nameplate on an abandoned building. Mesker Iron Works of Evansville, Indiana was one of the nation's leading sellers of iron work storefronts, tin ceilings, awnings, and other metal architecture elements. By 1915, they had sold storefronts into every state.

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Mesker Architectural Iron Works Column Detail: Black and White Photograph (DSC01853)

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Black and white architectural detail photograph of two Mesker Iron Works identification panels found on historic storefront buildings in a small town.

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Mesker Iron Works Storefront Panels: Black and White Photograph (DSC01674)

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Black and white photograph of an abandoned motel with message on the post of its old sign that says "Stop All Visitors Must Report to Office."

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Message on Old Motel Sign in the Mississippi Delta - Black and White Photograph (DSC00294)

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Black and white photograph of a distinctive old cotton gin building with an airplane flying overhead, seen in the heart of the Mississippi Delta.

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Mississippi Delta Cotton Gin - Black and White Photograph (KD003600X)

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Black and white photograph of a block of historic brick buildings with several fading vintage signs in the Mississippi Delta at Greenwood.

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Mississippi Delta Vintage Signs and Old Brick Buildings: Black and White Photograph (DSC02025)

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Black and white landscape photograph of a dark and moody woodland scene with two thick vines reaching across trees.

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Moody Woodland Scene with Thick Vines: Black and White Landscape Photograph (DSC01927)

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Black and white architectural detail photograph of old cement steps leading uphill onto an abandoned and thickly overgrown lot where a house once stood. The photo is titled "neighbors" because there is a companion photo of similar steps next door on the same street.

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Neighbors No. 01: Black and White Photograph (DSC01894)

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Black and white architectural detail photograph of steps in the front yard of a house that no longer exists. The photo is titled "neighbors" because there is a companion photo of similar steps next door on the same street.

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Neighbors No. 02: Black and White Photograph (DSC01895)

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Black and white photograph of an old barn on stilts set amidst the broad bright landscape of Earth and sky in the Mississippi Delta.

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Old Barn and Broad Sky in the Mississippi Delta - Black and White Photograph (DSC00075A)

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Old Bobo Cemetery on the Grounds of a Abandoned Clarksdale High School (A0012720)

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Old Bobo Cemetery on the Grounds of a Abandoned Clarksdale High School (A0012720)

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Black and white photograph of an old wood and corrugated steel building near Clarksdale, Mississippi, with a rusty vintage Dr. Pepper sign.

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Old Building with a Vintage Dr Pepper Sign Near Clarksdale, Mississippi (A0012526)

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Black and white photograph of a very large abandoned school building in Clarksdale, Mississippi, with the remains on an old family cemetery on the school yard. NOTE: I had originally, mistakenly called this a confederate cemetery, but it's actually the Bobo family cemetery, with headstones ranging from 1801 to 1895.

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Old Cemetery on the Grounds of an Abandoned School in Clarksdale, MS (A0012698)

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Black and white photograph of an old garage building with a sign that says "Old Jackson Road Garage, Circa 1933."

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Old Jackson Road Garage, circa 1933 - Black and White Photograph (DSC00443A)

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Black and white photograph of an ornate cast iron architectural detail seen on the main street of a small town.

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Ornamental Antique Iron Work Architectural Detail - Black and White Photograph (DSC00409)

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Black and white photograph of an ornate window with a decorative arch in an antique brick building.

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Ornate Window in an Antique Brick Building - Black and White Photograph (KD003122X)

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Black and white photograph of an overgrown creek bed in winter, near Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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Overgrown Creek Bed Near Clarksdale, Mississippi (A0012538)

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Black and white photograph of a forgotten avenue between a rows of big oak trees that has been forgotten and allowed to become overgrown.

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Overgrown Forgotten Lane Through the Woods - Black and White Photograph (KD004317X)

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Black and white photograph of peeling paint on the weathered boards of an abandoned historic mercantile store found along a back road in the deep south.

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Peeling Paint in an Old Mercantile Store: Black and White Photograph (KD003026X)

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Black and white photograph of a dusty piano inside an abandoned church.

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Piano and Chair in an Abandoned Church - Black and White Photograph (DSC05092)

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Black and white photograph of an old black piano found inside an abandoned church in the ghost town at Rodney, Mississippi.

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Piano Found in an Abandoned Ghost Town Church - Black and White Photograph (DSC05100)

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Black and white photograph of a historic red brick church in downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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Red Brick Church, Downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi (A0012608)

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Red's Place, Clarksdale, Mississippi (A0012631)

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Red's Place, Clarksdale, Mississippi (A0012631)

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Black and white photograph of a roadside farm fresh produce stand near Tunica, Mississippi. On the barn are hand-painted signs that say "Fresh Produce," and "Crawfish."

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Roadside Produce Stand Near Tunica, Mississippi (A0012477)

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Black and white photograph of a block of historic but abandoned and derelict storefronts in a small town.

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Row of Abandoned Small Town Storefronts: Black and White Photograph (DSC01723)

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Black and white photograph of weeds growing on top of a ruined Corinthian column from a mansion destroyed long ago

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Ruins of a Corinthian Column with Weeds on Top - Black and White Photograph (DSC04979)

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Black and white photograph of an abandoned old retail store with ivy and weathered plywood found in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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Ruins of an Abandoned Retail Store in Clarksdale Mississippi - Black and White Photograph (KD004770X)

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