Cotton Plantation, Georgia, 1917 – Vintage Photo 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.)
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This rare historic image captures Cotton Plantation, Georgia, 1917 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: A Georgia cotton plantation
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Cotton Plantation, Georgia, 1917
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In 1917 Georgia's cotton country still ran on tenant farming and sharecropping, with Black and white families working land owned by a comparatively small number of planters. Cotton was the state's main cash crop, and bales moved by rail to gins, warehouses and markets in Augusta, Macon and Savannah. The boll weevil had reached Georgia in the years just before, and growers were beginning to worry about falling yields. Prices were high when the United States entered the First World War that spring. Anyone who looked at a scene like this would have understood farming here as a single-crop economy whose fortunes rose and fell with the market and the weather.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Creator | f.e. lee co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Georgia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,128 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | A Georgia cotton plantation |
| Reference | GA Cotton Plantation 1917 |
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