The cotton planter and his pickers – Antique Wall Art
(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: The cotton planter and his pickers, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The cotton planter and his pickers
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Issued as a postcard by H. Tees of West Point, Mississippi, this group portrait places a cotton planter among the pickers he employed around 1908. Cotton dominated the farm economy of the region, and by the early 1900s most Black field workers there labored under tenancy or wage arrangements that bound them closely to the landowner's accounts. Commercial cards like this were sold and mailed widely, so the arrangement of figures reflects how plantation labor was presented to outside viewers, with the planter at the center and the workers posed for the camera.
| Created / published | c1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print (postcard) |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Group portraits 1900-1910.Photographic postcards 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Photograph from H. Tees, West Point, Miss. |
| Subjects | Afican Americans--Employment--1900-1910. Cotton pickers--1900-1910. Cotton plantations--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 838 × 528 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-196856 |
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