Title

Cotton is King - Plantation Scene, Georgia, 1895. Creator: Strohmeyer & Wyman.

Caption

A black-and-white stereoscopic photograph depicting a group of African-American men, women, and children picking cotton in a field. A white man on a horse can be seen in the background watching the group. Green type below the photograph reads, [(21)-5078 Cotton is King - Plantation Scene, Georgia./COPYRIGHT 1895 by Strohmeyer & Wyman]. Publisher and manufacturers information appear on left and right side of photograph. Description of the scene and the cotton industry appears on the back of the stereoscopic card.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM21A73_158

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

65,1Mb (2,4Mb) / 22,1in x 11,4in / 6634 x 3428 (300dpi)

Keywords

agriculture female Heritage Art agricultural workers farm labourers stereographic card stereoscopics National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC Heritage Art albumen prints stereoscopic photographs women woman people black male child children work job man men farming country guy occupation museum picking Georgia photography plantation location century profession concept cotton African American African-American B&W afro-american cotton field cotton Plantation United States of America 19th century black & white black and white American South B W farm hand farmhand farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers farmworker farmworkers nineteenth century heritage American America USA agricultural worker child labour cotton picking farm labourer stereoscopic photography TGN photograph stereocard cotton picker united states Stereoscopy Strohmeyer & Wyman Wyman Strohmeyer & Stereograph stereocard cultural heritage Black History Underwood & Underwood