A digital aerial photograph depicting a freight ship on Cape Fear River. The ship, which appears red, white, and grey in the sunlight, can be seen sailing south, toward the Atlantic. Waves and an effervescent trail in its wake extend all the way to the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.134
A digital aerial photograph depicting a meander along a section of the Combahee River. The river appears deep blue against the surrounding light brown flatlands. Remnant dikes and canals make patters in the grass, while a tree-lined canal follows the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.41
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields near Waverly, Georgia. The photograph is taken above fogs/low-lying clouds, making the rivers below look silver in the dim sunlight. Waverly Creek can be seen flowing from the left until it reaches the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.20
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along the Satilla River, near Woodbine, Georgia. The foreground features tree clusters that partially obscure houses and roadways underneath. The house farthest to the right overlooks a small pond in its…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.21
A digital aerial photograph showing an “unusual field” near Willtown Bluff in South Carolina. The ground appears multicolored from above, featuring various shades of green, brown, and black. Two diagonal lines intersect in the middle of the image, dividing…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.116
A digital photograph taken above Blackbeard Creek as it flows by the Interstate Paper facility in Riceboro, Georgia. Trees occupy the bottom left corner of the image. Farther south, remnant rice fields are visible, marked by a lighter shade of green than…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.11
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields by Alligator Bay and Topsail, North Carolina. Mill Creek can be seen flowing from the image’s bottom edge into Alligator Bay, which occupies much of the middle of the photograph. Numerous vestigial canals…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.136
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of Cooper River in South Carolina. The river is most noticeable along the image’s right edge. A dike separates it from flooded fields on the left. In the top left corner, a patch of dry…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.78
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along Cuckolds Creek, South Carolina. The river appears silverish blue against the brown fields. Shadows from surrounding objects can be seen in the foreground, while remnant canals follow the outline of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.56
A digital aerial photograph of fields across from Airy Plantation in Colleton County, South Carolina. Multiple streams can be seen meandering in all directions in the photograph, however, one prominent channel is noticeable in the top half, stretching from…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.95
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Combahee River flowing by Bluff Plantation in Colleton County, South Carolina. The river can be seen meandering through the center of the photograph, from bottom to top. It appears…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.107
A digital aerial photograph depicting remnant rice fields along the Satilla River in Hopewell, Georgia. Forestlands occupy the left edge of the image, with Hopewell Point (seen close to the bottom edge) protruding at a sharp angle far into the river’s…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.25
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of Edisto River in Colleton County, South Carolina. The Edisto River can be seen flowing along the lower section of the photograph, while the northern tip of Prospect Hill Island can be…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.100
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of Black River in South Carolina. The river, which flows south from the image’s left edge to the top right, appears sea blue against the bright green of the adjacent fields. Vestigial…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.109
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields at the confluence of Folly and Cuckolds Creeks. Cuckolds Creek appears bluish black as it meanders eastward, from the image’s left edge, through the remnant fields, which look brown and sometimes golden in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.57
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Combahee River in Colleton County, South Carolina. The river, which can be seen just above the center of the photograph, appears sea blue in contrast to the bright green fields…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.108
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Edisto River in Colleton County, South Carolina. Prospect Hill Island can be seen in the lower portion of the photograph, separated from the mainland by Edisto River. Three canals…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.101
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Edisto River, just north of Prospect Hill Island, South Carolina. The river can be seen flowing from the image’s top all the way to the bottom right corner, making a deep meander in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.102
A digital aerial photograph of fields along the Edisto River. The river begins in the top left and flows south toward the right edge. Two islands can be seen in its path (along the bank to the left): Prospect Island, whose fields appear to have brown…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.92
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Edisto River. The fields along the image’s bottom edge are flooded, while those in the middle of the image appear drier and largely grassless. Various paths, canals and strips of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.91
A digital aerial photograph depicting remnant rice fields along the South Edisto River flowing through the Bear Island Wildlife Management Area on Edisto Island, South Carolina. The Edisto can be seen toward the top of the photograph, engaging in a deep…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.104
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of Waccamaw River in South Carolina. The river can be seen flowing from the top of the image to the left edge, with Butler Island noticeably perched within its channel. Green remnant fields…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.113
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of Waccamaw River and the Great Pee Dee River. The Waccamaw can be seen flowing along the image’s bottom edge. Small clusters of trees protrude out of the water, which looks blueish black…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.70
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along sections of three rivers: Black River, the Great Pee Dee River and the Waccamaw River. Black River can be seen farthest to the right, flowing from the image’s bottom right edge until it reaches the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.112
