Antique Print Showing the Cotton Cultivation and Trade in America, Ca.1900

Name: Antique Print Showing the Cotton Cultivation and Trade in America, Ca.1900
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12930-4
Price: 425 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1900
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 26 × 38 cm (10.2 × 15 in)
Condition: Fair. /good, general age-related toning. Show some wear and creasing, small split on folding line. French text on verso, please study image carefully.
Period: The Twentieth Century
Places: Louisiana
Reference: BG-12930-4

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Cotton growing and the cotton trade in the American South, an original hand-colored engraving from a French magazine, published around 1900. The sheet is titled "Amérique. La culture et le commerce du coton" in the lettering beneath the lower image, with a reference to a page of the magazine text.

The upper register holds four small vignettes, each captioned in French: "L'ensemencement" (sowing), "Le sarclage" (hoeing the rows), "L'éplochage" and "L'égrenage" (ginning), the last showing workers feeding raw cotton through a machine. Together they follow the crop from field to gin. Below, a wide panorama of "Les docks à la Nouvelle-Orléans" fills the lower half of the sheet: wagons and carts loaded with bales crowd the levee, a team of horses hauls cotton in the foreground, and a long line of steamboats with tall chimneys and flags stands moored along the Mississippi front.

The scene records the cotton economy that made New Orleans one of the great export ports of the South, as presented to a French readership around the turn of the twentieth century. The engraver is not named.

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