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Rice culture on the Ogeechee, near Savannah, Georgia / sketched by A.R. Waud. – Antique Print

Rice culture on the Ogeechee, near Savannah, Georgia / sketched by A.R. Waud., 1867 — antique engraving
Rice culture on the Ogeechee, near Savannah, Georgia / sketched by A.R. Waud., 1867. Antique engraving from the Savannah 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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A window into the past: Rice culture on the Ogeechee, near Savannah, Georgia / sketched by A.R. Waud., preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Rice culture on the Ogeechee, near Savannah, Georgia / sketched by A.R. Waud.

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Rice cultivation along the Ogeechee River, a tidal stream south of Savannah, was among the most labor-intensive farming in the antebellum South, and this wood engraving shows that work as it looked just after the Civil War. Alfred R. Waud, a sketch artist who recorded Southern scenes for *Harper's Weekly*, drew the scene from life, and the engraving appeared in the magazine's January 5, 1867 issue. The subjects listed in the record point to the changed labor arrangements of Reconstruction, when freedpeople who had once been enslaved on these fields worked under new terms. Waud's sketches are valued today as eyewitness views of that transition.

Created / published1867
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1860-1870.Wood engravings 1860-1870.
NotesIllus. in: Harper's weekly, 1867 Jan. 5, p. 8.
SubjectsRice industry--Georgia--Savannah--1860-1870. African Americans--Employment--Georgia--Savannah--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,007 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-164629

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