- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Women in Cotton Field
- Contributor to Resource:
- Georgia Archives
- Date of Original:
- 1896/1898
- Subject:
- Business
Economy--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Ben Hill County, Fitzgerald, 31.71491, -83.25265
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Farm workers, pictured circa 1897, pose with their cotton harvest in Fitzgerald, the seat of Ben Hill County. In the decades following the Civil War, cotton fields were worked predominantly by Black sharecroppers.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/cotton/m-3345/
- Digital Object URL:
- https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/vg2/id/2728/rec/4
- Original Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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