Details
Title Cotton gin -- Ginning cotton [graphic].
Publisher [New York: Harper & Brothers]
Publisher NY. New York. 1854
Date [January 1854]
Physical Description 1 print: wood engraving; image 17 x 12 cm. (6.5 x 4.75 in)
Description Engraving is one of several accompanying T.B. Thorpe's article "Cotton and its Cultivation." Set in a gin-house, it shows two plantation hands working at a cotton gin. While a man pushes cotton out of the "packing-room" (a loft space) and down a chute, a woman uses a rake-like tool to guide it through the gin. Standing nearby, a woman with a bucket on her head watches the process, and a man peeks into the gin-house through an open window. Two large baskets used for carrying cotton can be seen in the left foreground.
Is part of Harper's new monthly magazine. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854.
Notes Illustration in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 8, no. 46 (March 1854), p. 459.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Subject Cotton gins and ginning.
Cotton plantation workers.
African American agricultural laborers.
Slave labor -- Southern States.
Genre Wood engravings -- 1850-1860.
Periodical illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Per H 9 62992.O v 8 n 46 March 1854 p 459
Accession number 62992.O