Sunny South – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Sunny South comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Labeled a view on the lower Mississippi, this color lithograph ties its bright palette to the cotton country along the river. Registered for copyright around 1883, it reflects a period when "Sunny South" was a popular phrase for the postbellum region, and such pictures often presented plantation work as idyllic even as sharecropping was reshaping Black labor there. Its subject headings point to cotton plantations and African American employment, so it is worth reading as a commercial image that shows its audience's view of the South as much as the conditions it depicted.
| Created / published | c1883. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Landscape prints 1880-1890.Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 6057(?) U.S. Copyright office. Below image: View on the lower Mississippi."" |
| Subjects | Cotton plantations--Mississippi River--1880-1890. African Americans--Employment--1880-1890. Mississippi River--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,134 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110480 |
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