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Title: Cotton is King, Plantation Scene, Georgia, U.S.A
Creator: Strohmeyer & Wyman
Date Created and/or Issued: 1895
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: View of African American field workers picking cotton in a field identified as in Georgia, including men, women, and a child, with an overseer on a horse in the background.
"Cotton is King, Plantation Scene, Georgia, U.S.A. Copyright 1895 by Strohmeyer & Wyman." and "Underwood & Underwood Publishers. New York. London. Toronto, Canada. Ottawa-Kansas. Works and Studios - Arlington, N.J. Littleton, N.H. Washington D.C."--text, printed in margins. "Cotton is King-A Plantation Scene, Georgia, U.S.A., Le Coto est Roi-La vue d'une Plantation, Georgie, Etats-Unis. ..."--beginning of printed text on verso giving the title translated in various languages. Title and date transcribed from item.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; mount 9 x 17.5 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/17236
Subject: African Americans
Agriculture
Agricultural laborers
Child labor--United States
Cotton picking
Plantations
Photographs. (aat)
Stereographs. (aat)
Place: Georgia
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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