Museum
Oct 5 2008, AP

Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an old brick gin mill in the Mississippi Delta.

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In this Sept. 24, 2008 file photo, the “Persian Ceiling”, which is made of over one thousand of Dale Chihuly’s blown glass pieces is shown on exhibit at the RISD Museum, in Providence, R.I.