Cotton is King, Plantation Scene, Georgia, 1895
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This stereograph depicts people picking cotton while a man on horseback oversees the work. This juxtaposition and the term, "plantation," reinforced associations between African Americans and enslavement. The message, conveyed in six languages, reached consumers as violence against African Americans increased and as state laws and the Plessy v Ferguson court decision legalized racial discrimination.
This stereograph depicts people picking cotton while a man on horseback oversees the work. This juxtaposition and the term, "plantation," reinforced associations between African Americans and enslavement. The message, conveyed in six languages, reached consumers as violence against African Americans increased and as state laws and the Plessy v Ferguson court decision legalized racial discrimination.
Artifact
Stereograph
Date Made
1895
Subject Date
1895
Keywords
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2020.0.1.29
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Card stock
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Printing (Process)
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 3.5 in
Width: 7 in
Inscriptions
front, left side: Underwood & Underwood, Publishers. / New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas. front, right side: Works and Studios / Arlington, N.J. Littleton, N.H. Washington, D.C. front, bottom, right side: (21) Cotton is King, Plantation scene, Georgia. / Copyright 1895 by Strohmeyer & Wyman
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