Sunny South – Antique Print
(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 Sunny South, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Sunny South
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Titled "Sunny South" and captioned as a view on the lower Mississippi, this color lithograph shows river country where cotton plantations shaped the landscape in the 1880s. Its subject headings point to the Black workers who labored in the fields, a reminder that the cheerful summer scene rested on work that followed the end of slavery in the South. Lithographs like this were widely sold in the late nineteenth century, and their bright color often softened the hard realities they showed. The print was registered for copyright around 1883.
| Created / published | c1883. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Landscape prints 1880-1890.Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 6057(?) U.S. Copyright office. Below image: View on the lower Mississippi."" |
| Subjects | Cotton plantations--Mississippi River--1880-1890. African Americans--Employment--1880-1890. Mississippi River--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,455 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216932 |
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