Item 95: Shipping cotton from levee near growing district by cars to manufacturing centre, Texas

Black-and- white image of African American workers loading bales of cotton onto railroad cars to be shipped to a manufacturing center. The workers are using dollies to transport the heavy bales into the cars, on the right side of the image. On the left side of the image, the ground is covered with bales, upon one of which two men stand, one of whom (holding papers in his hand) is the overseer. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.75 cm. Copy A.

Format: Stereoptic print.