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[African American man with horse cultivating cotton with plow, N.C.] – Historic Reproduction

[African American man with horse cultivating cotton with plow, N.C.], c1902. — historic photograph
[African American man with horse cultivating cotton with plow, N.C.], c1902.. Historic photograph from the Tractors collection.

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A man guides a horse-drawn plow through a cotton field in North Carolina, in a photograph the caption card dates to about 1902. The copyright line credits D.A. Tompkins, a promoter of Southern industry whose name is attached to many views of the region's farms and mills from this period. Cotton dominated much of the state's farmland then, and it was worked mainly by hand and animal power, often by Black tenant farmers and sharecroppers. Set against this board's tractor theme, the scene shows the animal-powered field work that machines were only beginning to replace.

Created / publishedc1902.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by D.A. Tompkins. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: N.C.--Misc.--1902; Photog. I.; Plantation crops; Geogr.; African Americans--Working; Farms...; Cotton; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,892 × 1,500 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142078

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