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Item 41: Picking Cotton

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 4

Scope and Contents

Color image of cotton pickers in a field of cotton. Older man with a young woman and child in the foreground. Several pickers in the field. All are African American. Buildings and telephone poles in background. Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No. 1098, "Dixie Land." Printed in Germany. Postmarked Dec. 24, 190[?] in Aiken, S.C.; manufactured between 1902 and 1907. 14 x 9 cm. See Item 57, in this folder, for a close-up view of the older man on the left, with different colored clothes, no publisher given, and identified as New Orleans, La.

Format: Postcard.

Dates

  • 1842-2003

Language of Materials

Collection material in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

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Extent

6.33 cubic feet

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

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