In the domain of King Cotton near Dallas Texas – Antique Print
(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
A window into the past: In the domain of King Cotton near Dallas Texas, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
In the domain of King Cotton near Dallas Texas
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Its title places the scene in the cotton country around Dallas, Texas, in 1907, and the record identifies the workers as African Americans who picked cotton there. Cotton was the economic backbone of much of Texas then, and field labor was often tied to sharecropping and tenant arrangements that left Black families dependent on landowners. Stereographs like this one were viewed in pairs through a stereoscope, a popular parlor entertainment that made rural work look close enough to touch.
| Created / published | 1907 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | H80451 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8398. Copyright by E.W. Kelley. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Employment--Texas--Dallas--1900-1910. Cotton pickers--Texas--Dallas--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,020 × 4,608 px · prints to 13 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-268029 |
More from the Dallas collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
![[Street scene in Dallas, Texas]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/34/34ff2c4b6306-400.webp)
![[Steam shovel digging trench, near Dallas]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/04/045950b4919a-400.webp)
![[Old Fort Dallas, Miami, Fla.]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/11/111c0e335259-400.webp)
