View of Laborers Preparing Cotton for Gins...

Artist George N. Barnard (American, 1819 - 1902)

Dateca. 1875

MediumAlbumen stereograph

DimensionsImage and sheet (both): 3 1/4 × 6 1/16 inches (8.26 × 15.4 cm)
Mount: 3 7/16 × 6 15/16 inches (8.73 × 17.62 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.3677

SignedOn mount recto, left edge, in black type: "G.N. BARNARD, / No. 263 King Street, Charleston, S.C."

InscribedOn mount recto, right edge, in black type: "South Carolina Views."; On mount verso, center, white label, in black type: "No. 86 / View of Laborers Preparing Cotton for Gins, on Alex. Knox's / Plantation, Mt. Pleasant, near Charleston, S.C."

MarkingsOn mount verso, right edge, in black pen: "Theresa M. Abbott"

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DescriptionImage of people spread out over a wooden deck sorting large piles of cotton. In the foreground, a boy is seated on an ox who pulls a wagon that is stacked with bags.

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