Details
Title Cotton plantation scene. [graphic]
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1920
Date [ca. 1920]
Physical Description 1 photograph : halftone photomechanical on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in) (stereograph format)
Description View of African American men agricultural workers picking cotton. In the foreground, an African American boy, attired in a green hat, a blue shirt, and blue pants, stands in front of a large pile of cotton with cotton in his left hand. In the left is a basket full of cotton. In the right, a young white girl, attired in a pink dress, sits next to the pile of cotton with her right hand shielded over her eyes. In the background, African American men work in the field picking cotton.
Is part of Unidentified series 85
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from attire of clothes and photographic medium.
Purchase 1998.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject African American agricultural laborers.
African American boys.
African American men.
Cotton -- United States.
Cotton pickers -- United States.
Cotton industry -- United States.
Girls -- United States.
Genre Halftone photomechanical prints -- 1910-1920.
Stereographs -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - work [P.9600.13]
Accession number P.9600.13