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"Georgetown Field in Spring"

2009

Sampit River, Georgetown, 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 digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Sampit River in Georgetown County, South Carolina. The river can be seen flowing from the bottom left corner to the top right. In the middle of the image, Pennyroyal Creek merges with the Sampit, while Ports Creek flows into the Sampit in the top right. Numerous vestigial canals create noticeable geometric shapes in the landscape on both the left and right banks. In addition to the wetlands along the riverbanks, patches of trees are also visible in the top left and top right, along the edges of the image.

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Catalog reference: 2014.216.69

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