Museum object · Racist and Stereotypical Objects
Away down South, Atlanta, Ga.
ca. 1900
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, 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.
This stereograph card depicts a group of people picking cotton. Consisting of two adults and two children, they stand partially bent over in a large cotton field. The stereograph card consists of two similar images side by side, with the images in the center of the card. At either end of the card is vertical script. On the left side margin is script that reads "American and Foreign Views." on the right side margin script reads "Sold/ only by/GRIFFITH & GRIFFITH/ Philadelphia, St. Louis/ and Liverpool, Eng." Along the bottom right margin is text that reads "Away down south, Atlanta, Ga."
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Catalog reference: 2015.248.4.9
