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A Rice Raft, South Carolina

captured 1895; printed 1904

Georgetown County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black and white stereograph of women and children standing on a large pile of rice-straw on a raft. Twenty people are in the photograph. Water and trees are in the background. Printed vertically on the left side of the card is "Underwood & Underwood, Publishers / New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas." Printed vertically on the right side of the card is "Works and Studios ~ Arlington, NJ/ Westwood, NJ." Printed below the right image in the bottom right corner is "(18) - 5677 - A Rice Raft, South Carolina / Copyright 1895 by Strohmeyer and Wyman." The back of the stereograph contains a description of the image as well as additional copyright information.

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Catalog reference: 2011.155.172

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