A digital aerial photograph depicting remnants of rice fields along the Ogeechee River, near Georgetown, GA. It features irrigation canals meandering in all directions through greenish-brown marshlands. Walker Canal can be seen prominently flowing across…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.5
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields on the north side of the Savannah River. Most of the photograph features greenish-brown grasslands, however, variations in the vegetation create brownish-black and light brown patterns within the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.15
A digital aerial photograph depicting remnant rice fields along a section of the Edisto River, north of Willtown Bluff, South Carolina. The river can be seen flowing from the top right all the way to the bottom left, making a deep meander around halfway…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.103
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields on the north side of the Savannah River. The foreground features the green tops of a cluster of trees, which stand out against the flooded vestigial rice fields that occupy the center of the photo. Remnant…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.13
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Sampit River flowing through Friendfield Plantation in South Carolina. The river can be seen in the bottom left corner flowing northeastward toward the top of the image. Remnant rice…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.76
A digital aerial photograph of wetlands in the Altamaha River. The image shows an island in the middle of the river. Remnant canals and puddles of water look silverish in contrast to the surrounding grasslands. The grass on the island’s north shore, which…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.30
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Ashepoo River. The river emerges close to the image’s top left edge and meanders southeastward until it reaches the right side of the image’s bottom edge. Numerous tributaries and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.85
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
