A digital aerial photograph depicting remnants of a rice field adjacent St. Marys River along the Florida-Georgia border. The image’s bottom edge features trees in Georgia, along the river bank. The river appears deep blue against the light green fields on…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.23
An aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Combahee River in South Carolina. The river can be seen meandering by in the left half of the photograph. To its left is a field that has been completely flooded by the river. To the right,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.38
A digital aerial photograph depicting remnant rice fields adjacent a section of the Waccamaw River in Georgetown South Carolina. Vestigial canals, that appear as various shades of black and blue in the sunlight, create polygonal shapes in the bright green…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.137
A digital aerial photograph depicting rice fields just south of Savannah, Georgia. The lower half of the image features green and brown, grassy fields punctuated by the remnants of narrow dikes that run at right angles to each other. The top half of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.2
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields taken along the Ogeechee River, near Fort McAllister, Georgia. The river can be seen in the foreground, flowing past either side of light-green, grassy vestigial fields. Parts of the fields appear light…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.18
A digital aerial photograph showing remnants of rice fields along the Ogeechee River. It features the Walker and Southfield Canals in the center of the image, flowing parallel each other through flat, green fields. Other canals connect to them at 90-degree…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.4
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of St. Marys River. The river can be seen in the middle of the image, reflecting the sunlight above. Dense forests, fog and low level clouds reduce some of the visibility within the image,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.9
A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields adjacent a strip of the Georgia I-95. The bottom left corner features the edge of nearby forests divided by the I-95, which continues northward. The Altamaha River can be seen flowing eastward, meandering…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.10
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
