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Part of the Imperial Sugar Company's huge sugar-refining complex, (as of 2014) the oldest extant business in Texas
A black and white photo of a woman kneeling in the grass. Office of War Information Photograph
A black and white photo of a group of people in a field. Office of War Information Photograph
Stockton (vicinity), California. Mexican agricultural laborers topping sugar beets
Stockton (vicinity), California. Mexican agricultural laborers topping sugar beets
Stockton (vicinity), California. Mexican agricultural laborer topping sugar beets
A group of men standing next to each other in a field. Office of War Information Photograph
Stockton (vicinity), California. Mexican agricultural laborer topping sugar beets
A black and white photo of two men sitting at a table. Office of War Information Photograph
Part of the Imperial Sugar Company's huge sugar-refining complex, (as of 2014) the oldest extant business in Texas
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The company has operated continuously on the same site, making the same products-refined cane sugar and a byproduct, blackstrap molasses-since 1843, before Fort Bend County was established. Founded as a sugar plantation in the early mid-20th century and incorporated in 1959, Sugar Land is the largest city and economic center of Fort Bend County.
Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).
Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)
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