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File Details: AJMTm, 1400 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 38.1 Mb

Image ID: AJMT

Credit:

by O’Sullivan (Timothy H.)

Date:

1862.03-04

Negative Size:

stereo

Equipment:

bench; chair; wash tub

Locations & Lines:

Beaufort SC; J. J. Smith’s plantation (Beaufort SC); Port Royal Island SC; South Carolina

Structures & Establishments:

J. J. Smith’s plantation gin house (Beaufort SC)

Sources:

Library of Congress

Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 159. Preparing Cotton for the Gin. [Gardner Co. stereo card]

Library of Congress says: Port Royal Island, S.C. African Americans preparing cotton for the gin on Smith’s plantation. Shows seven African Americans sitting in a pile of cotton in front of gin house.

Gardner No. 159.

Etched onto negative: 159.

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