Washington County, located on the Mississippi River in the heart
of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, is the culture that cotton built.
Founded by hearty pioneers willing to risk even their lives for the
unexcelled wealth that the "white gold" of cotton promised, the county
was literally carved out of a swampy, cane-covered wilderness where
the brave were as likely to reap an early grave as elaborate grandeur.
This collection of more than two hundred photographs from the
late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth depicts the unique
and pervasive dichotomies...