Cotton is king - Plantation scene with pickers at work, Georgia
- Title:
- Cotton is king - Plantation scene with pickers at work, Georgia
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Inequality and legacies of discrimination
- Publisher:
- Underwood & Underwood
- Creation Date:
- late 1800s-early 1900s
- ID Number:
- SL_AFAM_076
- Collection Number:
- 8043
- File Name:
- SL_AFAM_076.tif
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
stereographs - Subject:
- Racism in Mass Media
Cotton plantation workers
African American children
Plantation overseers - Description:
- A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Ten Black people – men, women, and one child – pick cotton in a waist-high field. The women wear gingham dresses and kerchiefs, the men wear white shirts and felt hats, and all are facing toward the left edge of the frame and looking down at their work. In the upper left corner, a man carries a large basket of cotton on his shoulders, while in the foreground a young girl puts cotton into another. In the background is a white overseer on a horse. The verso of the stereograph is also included. The printed text describes the enormous scale of the cotton industry and the life cycle of the plant.
- Notes:
- Title on object.
- Cite As:
- Stephan Loewentheil Photograph Collection, #8043. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Stephan Loewentheil Photograph Collection
- Box:
- IV-30
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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