A stereoscopic image of African Americans, including children, picking cotton in a Mississippi field. Two young children are posed in the foreground with a basket of cotton.
A hand colored engraving of an African American woman and children working in a road side stand. On the verso is a river scene of a ferry carrying a horse and carriage going down the Ashley River.
1920-1929, 1890-1899, 1900-1909, 1880-1889, and 1910-1919
Description:
A photograph album maintained by Anna E. Alston containing 72 photographs, mostly of African American men, women, and children as well as occasional white subjects. Photographs were taken in Columbia (S.C.), Charleston (S.C.), Savannah (Ga.), Philadelphia (Pa.), Ann Arbor (Mi.), Providence (R.I.), Boston (Ma.), Montreal, and Jacksonville (Fl.).
A stereoscopic image of African American women holding baskets with wares on top of their heads and children carrying wares atop their head. The text at the bottom of the image identifies them as "street vendors."
Main caption: 'American industries.--Silk culture in Alabama--an enterprise founded and carried on by Colored people at Huntsville.--from a sketch by A. Berghaus.' Caption left: 'Method of feeding the silkworms with mulberry leaves.' Caption right: 'Colored children carding the raw material.' [full date August 17, 1878.]
