Details
Creator Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer.
Title Picking cotton [graphic] / The Photo-Illustrators, 1206 Walnut St., Phila., Pa.
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1935
Date [ca. 1935]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 19 x 25 cm (7.5 x 9.5 in.)
Description Scene showing three African American men and an African American woman as they pick cotton in a large field. In the foreground, the workers, attired in hats, bend over at the waist as they harvest the cotton and place it in bags that they carry. A very young African American girl stands in front of the woman and looks at the viewer. A house is visible in the right background.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the people.
Photographer's imprint stamped on verso.
Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982.
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 girls.
African American men.
African American women.
Cotton.
Cotton pickers -- United States.
Farms -- United States.
Harvesting -- United States.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photo-Illustrators-Non-Philadelphia-Afro-Americana