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[African American man with horse cultivating cotton with plow, N.C.] – Antique Print

[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 Barns & Farms 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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[African American man with horse cultivating cotton with plow, N.C.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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

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A Black farmer guides a horse-drawn plow through a cotton field in North Carolina in this photograph from around 1902. The caption card, whose details the record itself marks as unverified, credits the picture to D.A. Tompkins, a Charlotte-based figure in the textile trade who promoted cotton manufacturing and wrote about the so-called New South. In the early 1900s, cotton was still tilled mainly with animal power and hand labor, much of it performed by tenant farmers and sharecroppers working land they did not own. The scene is a useful reminder that the mechanized equipment that would later replace animal-drawn plows was still decades away for most Southern fields.

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 scan1,536 × 1,218 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142078

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