A Rice Raft, South Carolina, 1895

Summary

African-American women and children worked in rice fields in coastal South Carolina at the turn of the 20th century. This stereograph offers a glimpse of these people, their personalities, and their surroundings. Language on the back, however, conveyed racist stereotypes that devalued African American contributions to agriculture, and prevented viewers from seeing the women and children depicted as equals.

African-American women and children worked in rice fields in coastal South Carolina at the turn of the 20th century. This stereograph offers a glimpse of these people, their personalities, and their surroundings. Language on the back, however, conveyed racist stereotypes that devalued African American contributions to agriculture, and prevented viewers from seeing the women and children depicted as equals.

Artifact

Stereograph

Date Made

1904

Subject Date

1895

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2020.0.1.30

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: 6.875 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: (18) A rice raft, South Carolina. / Copyright 1895 Strohmeyer & Wyman.

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