Item 41: Picking Cotton
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
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Extent
6.33 cubic feet
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853