Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of African-American men moving bales of cotton in an unidentified location, 1920-1930. In the foreground at right, there are many randomly stacked cotton bales, while at left, hundreds of bales are neatly stacked in rows. At center, a group of five or six men is using a wooden hoist to move a bale of cotton. More men can be seen standing among the bales at right. All of the workers are wearing broad-brimmed hats and long pants. A large building can be seen in the distance at left.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 10 x 13 cm., 17 x 28 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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