RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

For Participating Institutions

Postcards relating to cotton (MSS-0153)

Special Collections

Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleasant Ave
Providence, RI, 02908
Tel: 401-456-8380
email:digitalcommons@ric.edu

Scope & content

The collection contains photographic postcards, primarily depicting cotton fields, people picking cotton, and cotton on steamers, trains, and in ports. There are also some postcards that have drawings of racist caricatures of African Americans.