A digital photograph depicting the confluence where Cuckolds Creek flows into the Combahee River. Cuckolds Creek emerges from the images left edge, while the Combahee, seen meandering around brown, saturated fields appears silverish in the sunlight at the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.53
A digital aerial photograph taken along the Ogeechee River in Richmond Hill, Georgia. It features a deep meander in the Ogeechee and the resulting peninsula created in the adjacent marshlands. The remnants of irrigation waterways dissect the peninsula into…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.6
A digital aerial photograph depicting remnant rice fields along a section of the Ogeechee River in Richmond Hill, Georgia. It features a cluster of trees in the foreground, along the image’s bottom edge. In the middle of the photograph, the meandering…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.17
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Sampit River flowing through Friendfield Plantation in Georgetown County, South Carolina. The river can be seen flowing in the left with wide fields containing vestigial canals on…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.74
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge. The foreground features flooded vestigial fields bordered by a canal with roads flanking either side. Dikes within the flooded fields rise above the water level,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.14
A digital aerial photograph of the upper Combahee River meandering through dense forestlands in Colleton County, South Carolina. In the left portion of the image’s top edge, the river appears dark blue in the sunlight, and gradually becomes darker,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.35
A digital aerial photograph of a remnant rice field along the Satilla River in Camden County, Georgia. Tall trees occupy the image’s left edge, while the field is in the center. Vestigial canals and dikes are still visible in parts of the field but have…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.22
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along sections of three rivers: Waccamaw River, Great Pee Dee River and Black River. Black River can be seen along the image’s far right edge before it meanders slightly left and converges with the Great…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.68
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along the upper Ashepoo River above Ace Basin Parkway. The highway can be seen in the bottom left corner, separated from the river by flat fields as well as denser forests. Just above the road, the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.88
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields on Eagle Island in North Carolina. The island, which features remnant rice fields with vestigial canals and “quarter ditches,” occupies much of the image. However, parts of Wilmington can also be seen in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.133
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along the Edisto River. The river can be seen flowing from the top right past Prospect Hill Island and Edisto Island on the left. Willtown Bluff is clearly visible on the right side of the river, directly…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.97
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Combahee River in Beaufort County, North Carolina. The river, which appears silverish under the orange sunset, makes a deep meander around the remnant fields. Flooded vestigial…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.54
A digital aerial photograph taken along the Altamaha River in Georgia. The Altamaha occupies much of the left of the image and is separated from Butler River by Butler Island, which is recognizable by the symmetrical shapes left over in the landscape from…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.7
A high-contrast digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Edisto River in Colleton County, South Carolina. The river can be seen flowing south from the image’s left edge to the top. Along its right bank, Prospect Hill Island…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.105
A digital aerial photograph of fields along a section of the South Edisto River. The image features a deep meander in the river’s channel, starting in the bottom left corner and ending in the bottom right corner. A small diamond-shaped island is visible on…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.93
A digital scan of an aerial photograph depicting remnant rice fields at the junction of Cuckolds Creek and the Combahee River. Cuckolds Creek, which can be seen along the bottom edge looks deep blue. The Combahee, which flows along the right edge, appears…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.62
A digital aerial photograph of fields in Georgetown County, South Carolina. A body of water can be seen in the top left corner and along the photo’s left edge. The water appears deep blue in contrast to the bright green fields to its right. A prominent…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.111
A digital aerial photograph of rice fields in the ACE Basin, South Carolina. The grasses in the bottom of the image appear grey with patches of green. Vestigial canals create a green grid in this landscape, while a horizontal canal and a narrow levee with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.64
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Combahee River in South Carolina’s ACE Basin region. The river occupies much of the lower half of the image. In the bottom right corner, a remnant rice field can be seen with its…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.77
A digital scan of an aerial photograph taken along a section of the lower Combahee River. The lower two-thirds of the photograph features green, grassy remnant rice fields with vestigial canals and “quarter ditches.” Two of these canals run perpendicular…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.80
A digital aerial photograph of the Combahee River flowing through the ACE Basin in South Carolina. The river appears darkest in the bottom right corner of the image and almost silverish in the top left. The surrounding wetlands appear almost golden in the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.63
A digital aerial photograph of fields near the Georgetown area in South Carolina. Much of the foreground features vestigial canals in fields that appear as various shades of green and brown. Two prominent canals extend from the bottom of the photograph to…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.75
A digital aerial photograph of fields adjacent the Edisto River. The river can be seen flowing southward, from the top of the image to the bottom edge. Brown and green fields are visible on its banks, as well as Oakhurst Island on the left and Willltown…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.96
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of Brunswick River in Leland, South Carolina. The river can be seen in the image’s foreground, flowing south from the left edge to the right. In the right, vehicular traffic along Ocean…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.131
