Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Scanned aerial photograph of vegetation reclaiming quarter ditches
2005
Green Pond, Colleton County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A digital scan of an aerial photograph depicting vegetation reclaiming quarter ditches in remnant rice fields. A single ditch runs vertically in the right half of the photograph, while multiple quarter ditches connect to it at 90-degree angles. The surrounding grass occur in green, light brown and dark brown patches. Segments of other vertical ditches are visible in the image’s top left and right corners.
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Catalog reference: 2014.216.55
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