<I>Picking Cotton</I>

American Wilson & Havens Photography Unidentified Man or Men Unidentified Woman or Women

1880

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper on card mount
Genre: Stereographs
Museum: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Styles

Stereographs

Tags

agriculturerural lifeLabor unionsphotographycotton

About

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."