"Cotton is King" Plantation Scene, Georgia, U.S.A.
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 88 x 178 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.26
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting a number of workers picking cotton overseen by a man in the background sitting on a horse. The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: Printed in black in on the right lower margin: (21) - 5678 Cotton is King - Plantation Scene, Georgia Copyright 1895 by Strohmeyer & Wyman. In the left and margin, printed in italic print in black ink: "Underwood and Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto - Canada, Ottawa - Kansas. In the right hand margin: "Works and Studios Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J Verso is a description of cotton production in Georgia and the southern states, the importanc of cotton to the clothing industry, and the growing and picking of cotton . Below this, in English French German Italian Swedish Spanish and Russian, is the artist's title:- "Cotton is King" Plantation Scene, Georgia, U.S.A.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, photographer and publisher Strohmeyer and Wyman , photographer and publisher