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.

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.