Photograph by
Soliday, David, American
Date
2010
Medium
digital
Dimensions
H x W: 3832 pixels × 5760 pixels, 126.35 MB
Caption
SC –Folly Creek. I've always liked this winter scene as a perfect illustration of the loss of the defining “quarter ditches" in a rice field. Quarter ditches dug for rice fields if laid end to end would stretch about 22,000 miles. Cockfield Plantation, White Hall, SC.–Description from photographer, David Soliday.
Description
A digital scan of an aerial photograph depicting a section of Folly Creek as if flows through Cockfield Plantation in White Hall, South Carolina. Much of the left half of the image features the green tops of the forests below. To the right of these forests, Folly Creek appears black as it meanders through the surrounding light brown remnant rice fields. A thin strip of trees follows the river on either of its banks. On the bank seen on the right, parallel lines that connect to vestigial canals can be seen in the brown grass, while another patch of denser forests is depicted in the top right corner.
Place captured
Folly Creek, White Hall, Colleton County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
Portfolio/Series
Remnants of the Rice Culture
Classification
Photographs and Still Images
Type
digital media - born analog
Topic
Agriculture
American South
Nature
Photography
Rice farming
Slavery
United States History
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of David Shriver Soliday
Object number
2014.216.47
Restrictions & Rights
© David Soliday
Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5ff24bc21-4bfc-487d-9cb4-bb1230b9902e

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