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[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Toating rice on dock] – Historic Reproduction

[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Toating rice on dock], c1879. — historic photograph
[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Toating rice on dock], 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Toating rice on dock]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few views of Charleston's waterfront from the late 1870s show labor as directly as this stereograph, which pictures African American workers toating rice on the docks. Kilburn Brothers, the Littleton, New Hampshire firm that issued the card as No. 462, produced many such views for a public eager to see the South after the Civil War. Rice had long been one of Charleston's most important exports, grown on lowcountry plantations and shipped through its wharves, so the scene records the physical work that kept that trade moving. The catalog tags also mention pumps and street vendors, hinting at the busy street life around the harbor.

Created / publishedc1879.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by Kilburn Brothers. No. 462. 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 scan1,215 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142002

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