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Eco. Geo. Unit #4-- cultivating cotton – Vintage Print

Eco. Geo. Unit #4-- cultivating cotton, Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Co., c1947. — historic photograph
Eco. Geo. Unit #4-- cultivating cotton, Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Co., c1947.. Historic photograph from the Horses 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: Eco. Geo. Unit #4-- cultivating cotton, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Eco. Geo. Unit #4-- cultivating cotton

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This stereograph is a classroom lesson rather than a portrait of a place. Its title, "Eco. Geo. Unit #4: cultivating cotton," marks it as part of an economic geography series on how cotton was grown. Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, produced stereo cards like this for schools, and this one dates to about 1947. Cultivating cotton, which meant tilling and hoeing between rows, was long done with mules and horses pulling implements, and images like this record a method that was giving way to tractors in the years after the war.

Created / publishedMeadville, Pa. : Keystone View Co., c1947.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, gelatin silver.
NotesTitle from item. Copyright by Keystone View Co. Caption card tracings: Farm machinery; photog. Index; Cotton Industry; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,447 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-135004

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