Cotton is King: A Plantation Scene with Pickers at Work, Georgia

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Description

This stereograph features several African Americans picking cotton in a large cotton field. A large basket holding cotton is the lower left foreground and one man in the upper left of the images is carrying a large basket of cotton over his shoulders. The publisher's name is printed on either end of the images and the title of the image and the copyright are printed along the bottom right edge. The back of the stereograph provides a brief history of the cotton industry.

Publication Date

1890

Publisher

Underwood and Underwood

Time Period

1890-1899

Subjects

Cotton pickers; Cotton picking; Cotton--Harvesting

Geographic Location

Georgia

Object Type

image

Format (original)

stereograph: b&w

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MFM_MSS_837_Stereograph-21_001

Source

Mississippi State University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Division, Manuscripts Unit, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Americana Collection, Stereographs

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

Cotton is King: A Plantation Scene with Pickers at Work, Georgia, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Archives and Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University