[Albanian women picking cotton] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Albanian women picking cotton], 1956 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ef/efaaab10e578-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
A window into the past: [Albanian women picking 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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[Albanian women picking cotton]
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Women picking cotton in Albania in 1956 make up the subject of this print, a scene of field labor that the country's postwar government promoted as part of its push to expand agricultural output. Under the communist leadership that came to power after World War II, collective and state farms were organized to raise yields, and cotton was among the crops grown in the lowland regions where conditions suited it. Photographs like this one were often used to show women taking an active part in productive work, a theme the government stressed as it sought to bring women into the workforce. The record names the photographer nowhere, so the image is best read as a document of its time and its official ideals.
| Created / published | 1956 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1950-1960. |
| Subjects | Women--Employment--Albania--1950-1960. Cotton pickers--Albania--1950-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,034 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-164076 |
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