[RECONSTRUCTION]. A group of 8 photographs of African Americans, including stereoview of a cotton gin, comprising:

BARNARD, George N. (1819-1902), photographer. No. 85 Interior View of Ginning Mills Ginning Sea Island cotton on Alex. Knox's Plantation, Mt. Pleasant, near Charleston, S.C. Charleston, SC: [1874]. 6 1/16 x 3 1/8 in. stereoview on cardstock mount. Photographer's imprint on recto, printed title affixed to verso.

[With:] 3 photographs, 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. or smaller, mounted on 10 x 13 3/4 in. album page, featuring views of African American men, women, and children picking cotton, working in town, and eating watermelon "at home," as captioned on mount (some rippling to album page and images). -- 4 round photographs, 3 1/8 in. dia., on cardstock mounts, incl. a view of the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's home in Nashville, TN (verso ink identification) and 3 candid shots of unidentified African American men and women, presumably taken on the Hermitage grounds (toning).

Collection of Tom Charles Huston

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[RECONSTRUCTION]. A group of 8 photographs of African Americans, including stereoview of a cotton gin, comprising:

Collection of Tom Charles Huston

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[RECONSTRUCTION]. A group of 8 photographs of African Americans, including stereoview of a cotton gin, comprising: