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- Team Sitting in the Thomas Flyer Looking over Rice Paddies in Japan, New York to Paris Race, 1908 - The 1908 New York to Paris race was a 22,000-mile automobile endurance contest. After crossing the continental United States, teams shipped their vehicles to Asia. The Americans, driving a Thomas Flyer, disembarked in Japan in early May. As the Flyer and crew trekked carefully over the narrow Japanese roads, they encountered many inquisitive, courteous and helpful people.
- 1908
- Collections - Artifact
Team Sitting in the Thomas Flyer Looking over Rice Paddies in Japan, New York to Paris Race, 1908
The 1908 New York to Paris race was a 22,000-mile automobile endurance contest. After crossing the continental United States, teams shipped their vehicles to Asia. The Americans, driving a Thomas Flyer, disembarked in Japan in early May. As the Flyer and crew trekked carefully over the narrow Japanese roads, they encountered many inquisitive, courteous and helpful people.
- A Rice Raft with Plantation Hands, Near Georgetown, South Carolina, 1901-1909 - These women and children helped harvest an important food source during the late 1800s and early 1900s -- rice. They cultivated rice as their ancestors had done for 200 years. They worked alongside reaper-binders at harvest time, moving the grain to portable threshing machines. After threshing they gleaned the straw, loaded it on rafts, and floated back to their homes to feed their livestock.
- 1901-1909
- Collections - Artifact
A Rice Raft with Plantation Hands, Near Georgetown, South Carolina, 1901-1909
These women and children helped harvest an important food source during the late 1800s and early 1900s -- rice. They cultivated rice as their ancestors had done for 200 years. They worked alongside reaper-binders at harvest time, moving the grain to portable threshing machines. After threshing they gleaned the straw, loaded it on rafts, and floated back to their homes to feed their livestock.
- Open the Flood Gates, Flooding a Rice Field at High Tide, South Carolina, U.S.A. - Rice grows best when fields are flooded at planting time and periodically during the growing season. Enslaved people built the infrastructure that rice required before the Civil War. After the war, rice cultivation expanded along the Gulf Coast. This stereograph shows a man tending the crop while the back educates viewers about U.S. rice cultivation during the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
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Open the Flood Gates, Flooding a Rice Field at High Tide, South Carolina, U.S.A.
Rice grows best when fields are flooded at planting time and periodically during the growing season. Enslaved people built the infrastructure that rice required before the Civil War. After the war, rice cultivation expanded along the Gulf Coast. This stereograph shows a man tending the crop while the back educates viewers about U.S. rice cultivation during the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
- A Rice Raft, South Carolina, 1895 - African-American women and children worked in rice fields in coastal South Carolina at the turn of the 20th century. This stereograph offers a glimpse of these people, their personalities, and their surroundings. Language on the back, however, conveyed racist stereotypes that devalued African American contributions to agriculture, and prevented viewers from seeing the women and children depicted as equals.
- 1895
- Collections - Artifact
A Rice Raft, South Carolina, 1895
African-American women and children worked in rice fields in coastal South Carolina at the turn of the 20th century. This stereograph offers a glimpse of these people, their personalities, and their surroundings. Language on the back, however, conveyed racist stereotypes that devalued African American contributions to agriculture, and prevented viewers from seeing the women and children depicted as equals.
- Team Sitting in the Thomas Flyer Looking over Rice Paddies in Japan, New York to Paris Race, 1908 - The 1908 New York to Paris race was a 22,000-mile automobile endurance contest. After crossing the continental United States, teams shipped their vehicles to Asia. The Americans, driving a Thomas Flyer, disembarked in Japan in early May. As the Flyer and crew trekked carefully over the narrow Japanese roads, they encountered many inquisitive, courteous and helpful people.
- 1908
- Collections - Artifact
Team Sitting in the Thomas Flyer Looking over Rice Paddies in Japan, New York to Paris Race, 1908
The 1908 New York to Paris race was a 22,000-mile automobile endurance contest. After crossing the continental United States, teams shipped their vehicles to Asia. The Americans, driving a Thomas Flyer, disembarked in Japan in early May. As the Flyer and crew trekked carefully over the narrow Japanese roads, they encountered many inquisitive, courteous and helpful people.