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Scanned aerial photograph of the lower Combahee River

2012

Combahee River, Beaufort, Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, Sea Islands, 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 depicting rice fields along the lower Combahee River in South Carolina. The image has several broken rice fields in the lower right corner, appearing golden against the deep blue of the river. The winding river and fields extend to the horizon line, with several patches of trees on either side in the background. Around the top quarter of the image, the remnants of a railway appears as a dark horizontal line across the image.

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Catalog reference: 2014.216.79

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