Cotton Picking

Description:

An image of Black children picking cotton, meant for entertainment viewing using a stereoscope, undercuts the reality of life in the Jim Crow South, in which many Blacks were sharecroppers and circumstances had not changed much since emancipation. On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives

Attribution:

Keystone View Company (Publisher)

Date:

ca. 1900-1920

Exhibit Tags:

Landscape

Copyright:

This item is presumed to be in the public domain by virtue of creation date.