651. Cotton is King - A Louisiana Plantation Scene, (Prize Cotton).: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This stereograph card depicts a group of people picking cotton. There is a large container of cotton in the foreground. The stereograph card consists of two similar images side by side, with the images in the center of the card. At either end of the card is vertical text. On the left side margin is script that reads "International View Co." On the right side margin is script that reads "Decatur Ill. U.S.A." Along the bottom right margin is text that reads "641. Cotton is King - A Louisiana Plantation Scene, (Prize Cotton). / Copyright, 1900, by C. L. Wasson."

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1900
• Photograph by: Charles L. Wasson, American, born 1866
• Published by: International View Company, American
• Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
• Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
• Type: stereographs
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper on card mount
• Dimensions: H x W (image): 3 3/16 × 6 in. (8.1 × 15.2 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 3 1/2 × 7 in. (8.9 × 17.8 cm)
• Place depicted: Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
• Place printed: Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Agriculture
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Cotton
• Topic: Labor
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Rural life
• Object number: 2015.248.4.19
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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