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This is a photograph of a group gathered on a pile of hay. The image shows a large group of individuals standing or sitting on a grassy bank in a rural landscape. The people are positioned in casual, relaxed poses. Sparse trees can be seen in the background. The photograph is in sepia tone.
National Gallery of Art · Photograph
"A Rice Raft, South Carolina"
Strohmeyer & Wyman, Underwood & Underwood
- Date
- 1895
- Medium
- stereoscopic albumen silver prints
- Dimensions
- image/sheet (each): 8 × 7.6 cm (3 1/8 × 3 in.) mount: 8.8 × 17.7 cm (3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
- Classification
- Photograph
- Accession number
- 2023.39.203
- Credit line
- Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation
- Time span
- 1876 to 1900
- Department
- CPH
Subjects and terms
- portrait
- American
- Agriculture
- Labor
- African American
- Women
- South Carolina
- Stereograph
Provenance
Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.
Inscription
along left edge of mount printed in black ink: Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, / New York. London. Toronto-Canada. Ottawa-Kansas.; along right edge: Works and Studios / Arlington, N.J. Littleton, N.H. Washington, D.C.; bottom right: (18)-5677-A Rice Raft, South Carolina. / Copyright 1895 by Strohmeyer & Wyman; on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top right in graphite: 5.36 AL / AF245; center on applied paper: 6.37 / JA
NGA object ID 227224. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.