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[African American man with horse cultivating cotton with plow, N.C.] – Historic Reproduction

[African American man with horse cultivating cotton with plow, N.C.], c1902. — historic photograph
[African American man with horse cultivating cotton with plow, N.C.], c1902.. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(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.)

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In a North Carolina cotton field, a Black man guides a horse-drawn plow through the rows, a scene typical of Southern farming around 1902. Cotton was the region's main cash crop, and the labor of planting and cultivating it fell largely to Black workers, many of them tenants or sharecroppers farming land they did not own. The print is credited to D.A. Tompkins, a Charlotte figure known for promoting the textile industry. The date and caption come from an old card and have not been independently verified, so it is worth reading the image with that in mind.

Created / publishedc1902.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by D.A. Tompkins. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: N.C.--Misc.--1902; Photog. I.; Plantation crops; Geogr.; African Americans--Working; Farms...; Cotton; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,218 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142078

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