Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Aerial photograph of old rice fields adjacent the Ashepoo River
2013
Ashepoo River, Colleton County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
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 Ashepoo River. The Ashepoo’s main channel is seen along the image’s bottom edge, while a tributary can be seen flowing from the right side of the top edge to the bottom left corner. A remnant rice field occupies much of the image’s center, with the exception of two cluster of trees along the image’s left and right edges. In the top right corner, an adjacent field is visible. A prominent canal demarcates its boundaries, while “quarter ditches” create perfectly parallel lines in its grass.
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Catalog reference: 2014.216.87
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