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Richmond cotton plantation, Mississippi – Antique Print

Richmond cotton plantation, Mississippi, [1890 October] — historic photograph
Richmond cotton plantation, Mississippi, [1890 October]. Historic photograph from the Richmond 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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This rare historic photograph captures Richmond cotton plantation, Mississippi in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Among the Detroit Publishing Company's views, this October 1890 mammoth glass negative shows a cotton plantation at Richmond, Mississippi, and its subject list includes piers and wharves, which suggests a river landing where cotton was loaded for shipping. The record notes that it may have been published as the right section of a two-part panorama. The firm's listing in the 1898 *catalog of the W.H. Jackson Views* spells the place "Richland," a reminder that place names were often recorded inconsistently. Cotton was the leading crop across much of Mississippi at the time, so the picture offers a documentary look at the working landscape of the postwar South.

Created / published[1890 October]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 18 x 22 in.
GenreMammoth plates.Glass negatives.
NotesPossibly published as a single plate as a right section of a two-part panorama. Listed in Detroit Publishing Co. negative log as no. L-6079. Listed in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898) as Richland cotton plantation". "Detroit Photographic Co." and "06079-2-R" and "1569 B" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 01569. Detroit Publishing Co. panorama no. 06079. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCotton plantations. Piers & wharves.United States--Mississippi.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-79792

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