Details
Creator Keystone View Company.
Contributor Singley, B. L. copyright holder.
Title "We's done all dis s'mornin'." [graphic].
Publisher Meadville, Pa.; St. Louis, Mo.; San Francisco, Cal.; Toronto, Ca.; New York, N.Y.; London, Eng. : Keystone View Company, manufacturers and publishers
Publisher PA. Meadville. 1899
Date 1899
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 Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1899, by B. L. Singley.
Title from item.
Title printed in five different languages, including Italian, French, and German, on verso.
Cruved buff mount with rounded corners.
Several lines of text printed on verso about the "rich resources" of the state of Arkansas, including fertile soil for a "variety of crops"; "grazing lands"; mountains: "all kinds of building stones"; rivers; "excellent common school system and several higher institutions of learning"; and "Hot Springs." Text concludes: "The cotton fields once the dread of the Virginia slave, have lost nothing of their picturesqueness with the abolition of slavery, and nowhere in the United States can primitive negro life be better studied."
Gift of David Long.
RVCDC
Description revised 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.
African Americans.
Child labor.
Cotton industry.
Cotton pickers.
Occupations and race.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1890-1900.
Stereographs -- 1890-1900.
Printer Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd), copyright holder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Keystone View Company - Work [P.2018.16.2]
Accession number P.2018.16.2