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Box WSC001

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

Loading Cotton on the Alabama River caption, 1857

 File — Box: WSC001, Folder: W0129.01
Scope and Contents This two-page typescript, titled "Loading Cotton on the Alabama River," is the caption of an illustration initially published in Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion on November 28, 1857. The caption describes an illustration featuring African-American boatmen using hooks to load cotton bales onto a steamboat. This collection only contains a typescript of the caption; a copy of the illustration is not included.
Dates: 1857
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / W-0129, A. S. Williams III Americana Collection's small manuscript collections