- Published by
- Griffith and Griffith, founded 1896
- Subject of
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Date
- ca. 1900
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper on card mount
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 3 1/8 × 6 in. (8 × 15.2 cm)
- H x W (sheet): 3 1/2 × 6 15/16 in. (8.9 × 17.7 cm)
- Description
- This stereograph card depicts a group of people picking cotton. Consisting of two adults and two children, they stand partially bent over in a large cotton field. The stereograph card consists of two similar images side by side, with the images in the center of the card. At either end of the card is vertical script. On the left side margin is script that reads "American and Foreign Views." on the right side margin script reads "Sold/ only by/GRIFFITH & GRIFFITH/ Philadelphia, St. Louis/ and Liverpool, Eng." Along the bottom right margin is text that reads "Away down south, Atlanta, Ga."
- Statement
- Objects depicting racist and/or stereotypical imagery or language may be offensive and disturbing, but the NMAAHC aims to include them in the Collection to present and preserve the historical context in which they were created and used. Objects of this type provide an important historical record from which to study and evaluate racism.
- Place depicted
- Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Racist and Stereotypical Objects
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- stereographs
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2015.248.4.9
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




