Gene Waddell stereograph collection of rice and cotton cultivation
Collection Overview
Collection consists of twelve stereographs of rice and cotton cultivation in South Carolina (including Georgetown, South Carolina); Savannah, Georgia; Louisiana; and Mississippi, compiled by Gene Waddell. A majority of the stereographs were produced by the Keystone View Company but the collection also includes stereographs produced by Underwood & Underwood, the Kilburn Brothers, and American Views. Stereograph images depict African Americans plowing, hoeing and flooding rice fields, harvesting cotton, and pressing oil from cooked cottonseeds. Also included are images of a large stone for hulling rice, "Street venders," and a shipping wharf in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dates
- Creation: 1879, 1904-1905
Language of Material
Materials in English
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Copyright Notice
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Historical Note
Produced from the early 1850s through the 1930s, stereographs (also known as a stereogram, stereopticon, or stereo view) served as a popular form of entertainment, education, and virtual travel. Stereograph images consist of two identical photographs positioned side by side on cardboard and when used with a stereoscope, the device used to view stereographs, these flat two-dimensional images combine into a single image with an illusion of depth. Underwood & Underwood, founded in 1881 in Ottawa, Kansas, was the largest producer of stereographs but sold their stereographic stock and rights in 1920 to the Keystone View Company, founded in Meadville, Pennsylvania, in 1892, which then became the largest producer of stereographs in the United States.
Extent
1 folder (12 items)
Abstract
Collection consists of twelve stereographs of rice and cotton cultivation in South Carolina (including Georgetown, South Carolina); Savannah, Georgia; Louisiana; and Mississippi, compiled by Gene Waddell. A majority of the stereographs were produced by the Keystone View Company but the collection also includes stereographs produced by Underwood & Underwood, the Kilburn Brothers, and American Views. Stereograph images depict African Americans plowing, hoeing and flooding rice fields, harvesting cotton, and pressing oil from cooked cottonseeds. Also included are images of a large stone for hulling rice, "Street venders," and a shipping wharf in Charleston, South Carolina.
Collection Arrangement
Materials are described at the item level.
Acquisitions Information
Materials were donated in 2005 and 2006 by Gene Waddell.
Alternate Form of Materials
Digital reproductions available online in the Lowcountry Digital Library.
Processing Information
Processed by Joshua Minor, March 2016.
Source
- Waddell, Gene (Donor, Person)
Subject
- Keystone View Company (Organization)
- Underwood & Underwood (Organization)
- Kilburn Brothers (Organization)
- American Views (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Charleston (S.C.) -- Photographs
- Georgetown (S.C.) -- Photographs
- Louisiana -- Photographs
- Mississippi -- Photographs
- South Carolina -- Photographs
Topical
- African Americans -- Louisiana -- Photographs
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- Photographs
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Georgetown -- Photographs
- Cotton picking -- Louisiana -- Photographs
- Cotton picking -- Mississippi -- Photographs
- Cottonseed oil mills -- South Carolina -- Photographs
- Photography, Stereoscopic
- Rice -- Hulling -- Photographs
- Rice farming -- South Carolina -- Georgetown -- Photographs
- Rice farming -- South Carolina -- Photographs
- Rice workers -- South Carolina -- Photographs
- Stereoscopic views -- Southern states
- Title
- Inventory of the Gene Waddell Stereograph Collection of Rice and Cotton Cultivation, 1879, 1904-1905
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by: Joshua Minor; machine-readable finding aid created by: Joshua Minor
- Date
- 2016
- Description rules
- Dacs
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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