Pair of wet plate photographs, mounted to 7 x 3 1/2, card stock. Group of negro slaves working in the cotton fields picking cotton. The group consists of men, women and a young girl standing in the foreground next to a cotton basket. Negro man at upper left is carrying a basket full of cotton on his back. An overseer on horseback is visible at the upper center of the view. Title imprint on the front mount: Cotton is King. Plantation Scene, Georgia, U.S.A. Copyright 1895 by Strohmeyer & Wyman. Imprint at edge of mount, Strohmeyer & Wyman, Publisher, New York, N.Y. Imprint on the opposite edge reads: Sold by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London, Toronto, Canada, Ottawa, Kansas. Copy photograph of an earlier slave plantation image. Imprint on the verso, Cotton is King- A Plantation Scene, Georgia, U.S.A. Corner wear to mount. Very fine. Excellent content. |