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Scanned aerial photograph of the upper Combahee River

2012

Combahee River, Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America

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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 remnant rice fields along the upper Combahee River. The river can be seen flowing along the image’s top edge. It appears blueish black against the nearby fields that have a mixture of green and brown grasses. Vestigial canals and quarter ditches create irregular patterns in the landscape.

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Catalog reference: 2014.216.84

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