Picking cotton on a Georgia plantation – 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: Picking cotton on a Georgia plantation, preserved in this antique engraving. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Picking cotton on a Georgia plantation
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Titled for a Georgia plantation, this 1858 wood engraving shows workers picking cotton, the crop that made the South's economy and its export trade so central before the Civil War. It appeared in *Ballou's Pictorial*, an illustrated weekly published in Boston, which aimed its images at northern readers curious about life in the South. Pictures like this often reflected the assumptions of their makers more than the conditions in the fields, where the labor was performed by enslaved people. The record's details about its origin are unverified, so the engraving is best read as evidence of how plantation work was presented to the North on the eve of the war.
| Created / published | 1858 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Ballou's Pictorial, v. 14, 1858, p. 49. Ref. copy may be in P&P - A Pictorial History of Blackamericans - E185.H83 1973, p. 16. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Plantation crops; Negroes; Georgia. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,034 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149284 |
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