Details
Contributor Bateman & Cos Inc., former owner.
Title Digging potatoes with modern machinery [graphic].
Publisher [New Jersey?]
Publisher N.J. 1928
Date March 25, 1928
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 8 x 10 in.
Description Touched up newspaper photograph depicting a portrait of the back of an African American man riding his horse-drawn "Iron Age" potato machine as he harvests a field of potatoes. The man, attired in a brimmed hat, a long-sleeved shirt, overalls, and shoes, sits on the machine and holds the reins to the two horses. The machine is pulled down rows of potato plants. The newly harvested potatoes are visible on the ground.
Notes Title from typed note pasted on verso.
Printed caption pasted on verso: "Digging Potatoes with Modern Machinery."
Manuscript note on verso: Bateman & Cos Inc., Grenloch, N.J.
Gift of Jane Abrams Bender, 1997.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African American agricultural laborers.
African American men.
Agricultural machinery & implements.
Farming.
Harvesting.
Horses.
Potatoes.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Portrait photographs -- 1920-1930.
Provenance Bateman & Cos Inc., former owner.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photos - unidentified - Industry [P.9520.51]
Accession number P.9520.51