Greetings from the Sunny South Where the Cotton Blossoms Grow

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Description

A color illustration of Black people picking cotton in a large cotton field while a white man in a suit and hat stands in the field watching. The scene is encircled by three alligators and the title of the card is printed in red in the upper right corner.

Publisher

S. Langford and Co., New York

Subjects

Postcards; Cotton; Cotton pickers; Plantations

Keywords

cotton; cotton fields; cotton picking; plantations

Object Type

image

Format (original)

postcard

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MFM_MSS_837_postcard-Sunny-South_001

Source

Mississippi State University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Manuscripts Unit, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Mississippiana Collection, Postcard/Photographs, Box 5, African-Americana

Repository

Manuscripts

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.MSState.edu.

Recommended Citation

Greetings from the Sunny South Where the Cotton Blossoms Grow, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University