Details
Title [Proof vignette of Southern planter and scenes from the South] [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher United States. 1860-1870
Date [ca. 1860 - ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 16 x 23 cm (6 x 9 in.)
Description Proof vignette that was probably to be incorporated into a larger print. Shows a white man plantation owner, seated on a bale of cotton, surrounded by Southern agricultural iconography, including a twig of cotton, a mill building, and Black men laborers, possibly enslaved men, picking in a cotton field near a docked side-wheel paddle steamer. A horse-drawn wagon by a line of people is visible at the dock. Contains registration marks and a color mark.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Gift of David Doret, 2007.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African American men.
Cotton.
Cotton industry -- Southern states.
Cotton pickers -- Southern states.
Cotton plantations -- Southern states.
Plantation life -- Southern states.
Enslaved persons -- Southern states.
Steamboats -- Southern states.
Enslaved men -- United States.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Proofs -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| GC-Allegories [P.2007.39.25]
Accession number P.2007.39.25