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A cotton plantation on the Mississippi – Antique Print

A cotton plantation on the Mississippi, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1884. — antique lithograph
A cotton plantation on the Mississippi, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1884.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive 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 cotton plantation on the Mississippi

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Currier & Ives issued this 1884 lithograph under the title "A Cotton Plantation on the Mississippi," a subject that appealed to a northern buying public curious about Southern agriculture a generation after the Civil War. The firm, based in New York, produced large numbers of prints like it for sale to households and businesses, and the image is catalogued as number 1394 in the standard Gale Research catalog raisonné. Cotton was the dominant crop of the Mississippi Delta and river parishes, worked by enslaved people before emancipation and by sharecroppers and wage laborers afterward, so the scene invites a closer look at who is present and who is absent from its composition.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1884.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1880-1890.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1394.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,060 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176473

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