A Cotton Plantation on the Mississippi – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic image of A Cotton Plantation on the Mississippi brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
A Cotton Plantation on the Mississippi
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A cotton plantation along the Mississippi River is the setting here, a landscape where the river's rich alluvial soil made the Delta one of the most productive cotton regions in the country. Plantations like this one depended on enslaved and, after emancipation, tenant and sharecropped labor to plant, chop, and pick the crop, and the fields and outbuildings in such scenes often reveal how closely the agricultural economy was tied to that labor system. Worth noticing is how the broad, flat fields and the scattered farm buildings signal the scale of production that drove the cotton trade through river ports like New Orleans and Memphis.
| Original scan | 9,977 × 6,993 px · prints to 33 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 9 |
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