Details
Creator Keystone View Company.
Contributor Singley, B. L. copyright holder.
Title "We's done all dis s'mornin'." [graphic].
Publisher Meadville, Pa.; New York, N.Y.; Portland, Oregon; London, Eng.; Sydney, Aus. : Keystone View Company, manufacturers and publishers
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1913
Date 1899, ([printed] 1913)
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description Racist scene showing, in the foreground, a young, African American girl and boy standing behind a large basket of cotton in a cotton field. The girl faces the camera and the boy looks behind him and with his head turned away. The girl wears a bonnet, dark-color, long-sleeved shirt, and a light-color skirt. The boy wears a long-sleeve, light-color, smock-like shirt. In the background, African American men, women, boys, and girls work in the field or are posed to stand and face the camera. One man sits, high up, on bales.
Notes Dates from copyright statements on recto and verso: Copyright 1899, by B. L. Singley. Made in U.S.A. and Copyright, 1913, by the Keystone View Company.
Title from recto of item.
Title printed in five different languages, including Italian, French, and German, on verso.
Variant title on verso: 9506-"We'se done all dis's mornin',"-Picking cotton on a Mississippi plantation.
Several lines of text printed on verso, often describing in racist terms, the culture, conditions, and economics of the cotton industry in the South.
Curved grey mount with rounded corners.
Gift of David Long.
RVCDC
Description reviewed 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Biographical / historical note Keystone View Company was founded in 1892 by B.L. Singley, an amateur photographer from Meadville, Pennsylvania. Keystone View Company was the leader in promoting stereographs for educational purposes. In 1912 the company purchased rights to some Underwood & Underwood negatives for use in educational sets, and in 1922 purchased the remaining stock of Underwood materials. The company remained in business until 1970.
Subject African American children -- Mississippi.
African American. -- Mississippi
Child laborers -- Mississippi.
Cotton industry -- Mississippi.
Cotton pickers -- Mississippi.
Occupations and race.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1910-1920.
Stereographs -- 1910-1920.
Printer Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd), copyright holder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Keystone View Company - Work [P.2018.16.3]
Accession number P.2018.16.3