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[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, drying cotton] – Historic Reproduction

[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, drying cotton], c1879. — historic photograph
[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, drying cotton], c1879.. Historic photograph from the Charleston 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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Step back in time with [African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, drying cotton], a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Cotton drying in the open air at a Charleston warehouse is the particular subject here, a step in processing that depended on outdoor labor. The picture is a stereograph, a pair of nearly identical photographs mounted on card and viewed through a hand stereoscope to produce a three-dimensional effect. Kilburn Brothers, the Littleton, New Hampshire firm that issued this numbered card, was a prominent American publisher of stereoviews in the late nineteenth century. Charleston's economy after the Civil War still rested heavily on cotton and rice, and the caption card's tracings also point to rice, docks and street vendors, though the record itself is unverified.

Created / publishedc1879.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by Kilburn Brothers. No. 464. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: African Americans--Working; Pumps; Street vendors; Cotton Industry; Rice; Docks; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,228 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142001

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