Details
Creator Underwood & Underwood.
Contributor Strohmeyer & Wyman, copyright holder.
Title Cotton is king. Plantation scene, Georgia, U.S.A. [graphic].
Publisher New York ; London ; Toronto, Canada ; Ottawa, Kansas ; Arlington, N.J. ; Littleton, N. H. ; Washington, D. C. : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, works and studios
Publisher N. Y. New York. 1895
Date 1895
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description Scene showing an African American girl, women, and men picking cotton in a cotton field. In the foreground, a girl picks cotton near a large basket filled with the fiber. Behind her, a number of women and men, some hunched over and with large cloth bags hung over their shoulders, pick cotton from the rows of plants. One man holds a large basket of cotton with his hands over his head and the basket on his back. The women wear long-sleeve, checkered cotton dresses and kerchiefs. The mean wear long sleeve shirts and pants. Most wear wide-brimmed hats, except the man carrying the basket, who wears no hat. In the background, a white man, attired in a suit and on horseback, oversees the cotton pickers.
Notes Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1895, by Strohmeyer & Wyman.
Title from item.
Curved grey mount with rounded corners.
Title printed in six different languages, including French, German, and Spanish on verso.
Several lines of text printed on verso about the cotton industry, the "world-problem of clothing," the cultivation of cotton, including "picking is usually done by negro laborers, as here, though experiments with harvesting machines are meeting with some success," and suggested further reading, including encyclopedia article subjects and Carrol D. Wright's "Industrial Development of the United States." Text begins: This beautiful field "white unto the harvest," is a sense to delight a painter, and at the same time, it is a condensed cyclopaedia of one of the greatest industries of the whole world.
Gift of David Long.
Title variant of P.2017.121.2.
RVCDC
Description reviewed 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Biographical / historical note In 1912 Keystone View Company purchased rights to some Underwood & Underwood negatives for use in educational sets, and in 1922 purchased the remaining stock of Underwood materials. Keystone remained in business until 1970.
Subject African American girls Georgia.
African American men -- Georgia.
African American women -- Georgia.
Child labor -- Georgia.
Cotton industry -- Georgia.
Cotton pickers -- Georgia.
Occupations and race.
Supervisors -- Georgia.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1890-1900.
Stereographs -- 1890-1900.
Printer Strohmeyer & Wyman, copyright holder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Work [P.2018.16.6]
Accession number P.2018.16.6