Port Royal Island, S.C. African Americans preparing cotton for the gin on Smith's plantation

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Port Royal, S.C., 1861-1862. Shows seven African Americans sitting in a pile of cotton in front of gin house.
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0587
Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
Two plates form left (LC-B811-0159B) and right (LC-B811-0159A) halves of a stereograph pair.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4205.
Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
General information about Civil war photographs is available at loc.gov
Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress).
Reference copy in: LOT 4205.
Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865.