2-832-859 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

An albumen print on cabinet card depicting a group of men and women weighing cotton. The photograph shows a tall bearded white man wearing a straw hat, light colored shirt, and dark pants weighing a large basket of cotton. The scale is a T-shaped wooden stand with a weighted bag on one end of the top pole and the cotton basket attached to the other. A group of nine (9) African-Americans sit on baskets of cotton to the right. Each is wearing a hat. A short man stands next to an open shed on the left. In the background is a small wooden building, trees, and a field. The photograph is faded with a yellowish tint and mounted on a piece of board with rounded corners that is green on the front and gray on the back. A small hole is located at the top center of the backing board. The back is printed with text identifying the series and photographer.