In the cotton fields of Georgia – Vintage Print
(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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In the cotton fields of Georgia
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Cotton picking in Georgia is the subject of this stereograph card, which was made to be viewed through a stereoscope so that two nearly identical images merged into a single scene with depth. The card was published by T.W. Ingersoll of St. Paul, Minnesota, a firm that sold views of places and everyday work to home viewers in the late 1890s. Cotton remained the dominant crop across much of rural Georgia then, and picking it was done largely by Black workers under sharecropping and tenancy arrangements that often kept them in debt. Cards like this one record that labor while also showing how such scenes were packaged for a national audience.
| Created / published | St. Paul, Minn. : T.W. Ingersoll, 1897, c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 45841 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 935. Copyright by T.W. Ingersoll, Publisher |
| Subjects | African Americans--Employment--Georgia--1890-1900. Cotton pickers--Georgia--1890-1900. Cotton plantations--Georgia--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,711 × 3,771 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221465 |
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