Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Picking Cotton
1870-1880
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, 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.
This stereograph card depicts several figures picking cotton in a field. Wearing dark clothing, they bend over to reach the cotton. A man in the foreground has a large bag on the ground in front of him filled with cotton. The stereograph card consists of two similar images side by side, with the images in the center of the card. The green margin of the cardboard mount is visible around the edges. There is text on the back that reads "Photograph by Wilson & Havens/ No.143 Broughton Street/ Savannah, GA."
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Catalog reference: 2015.248.4.22
