Postcard, Cotton Field Scene, Alexandria Valley, Alabama, circa 1890

Creation Date

1890

Decade

1890

Photographer

Fred R. Martin

Subject

Alabama -- History, Cotton -- Alabama, Cotton picking -- Alabama, Cotton plantation workers -- Alabama, African American agricultural laborers -- Alabama, Postcards

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Description

Field workers, African American men, women, and children, pick cotton in Alabama fields circa 1890. Postcard text reads, "World's most famous cotton field scene, Alabama's Alexandria Valley about 1890."

Date Digitized

February 2022

Source

Annie Rowan Forney Daugette Memoirs Scrapbook

Is Part Of

Historical Image Collection

Rights

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Location

The original printed photograph is contained within the International House miscellaneous collection housed in the Houston Cole Library Alabama Gallery.

Identifier

http://jsucollections.jsu.edu:9000/photocollection/intl_misc/master/annie_scrapbk_1883-1986_027_inb1.tif

Technical Metadata

Archival images are tiffs scanned from the original material at 600 dpi. The file name is annie_scrapbk_1883-1986_027_inb1.tif; file size is 13.8 MB.