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Agriculture -- Alabama

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Loading Cotton on the Alabama River caption, 1857

 File — Box WSC001: [Barcode: 1006241611], 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