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[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, carrying cotton] – Historic Print

[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, carrying cotton], c1879. — historic photograph
[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, carrying cotton], 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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A window into the past: [African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, carrying cotton], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A stereograph card from about 1879 shows Black laborers carrying cotton at a Charleston, South Carolina, warehouse, with the bales and loading work set against the city's waterfront trade. Kilburn Brothers, the Littleton, New Hampshire firm that produced many stereo views of American cities and industries, issued it as number 465. In the late 1870s, Charleston was still a major cotton port, and dockside and warehouse labor was central to its economy after the Civil War. The card's caption tags also list rice, docks and street vendors, which point to the wider commercial life of the waterfront. Because the record's data comes from an old caption card and has not been fully verified, the details of the exact scene are best read with that caveat in mind.

Created / publishedc1879.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by Kilburn Brothers. No. 465. 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 scan1,225 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141998

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