A Rice Raft, South Carolina, 1895
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Artifact Overview
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 Details
Artifact
Stereograph
Date Made
1904
Subject Date
1895
Collection Title
Location
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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