Aerial photograph of fields on Bluff Plantation along the Combahee
date: label: Date
content: 2012
name: label: Photograph by
content: David Soliday, American
notes: label: Caption
content: SC - Bluff Plantation on the Combahee. A Heyward Plantation. There is a good history of rice production based on this plantation - "The Seed from Madagascar." –Description from photographer, David Soliday.
label: Description
content: A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Combahee River flowing through Bluff Plantation, South Carolina. The river can be seen in the bottom left corner flowing eastward to the top right. It appears black in the sunlight, in contrast to the mostly brown fields through which it flows. Two islets within its channel can be seen in the top right. Remnant canals and vestigial “quarter ditches” are clearly visible in many of these fields, especially in the ones closer to the image’s bottom edge. The fields in the top left are noticeably greener than the others and are separated from the brown fields by clusters of taller trees.
place: label: Cultural Place
content: Combahee River, Colleton County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Agriculture
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Nature
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Rice farming
label: Topic
content: Slavery
label: Topic
content: United States History
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: Remnants of the Rice Culture
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of David Shriver Soliday
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.216.135
objectType: label: Type
content: digital media - born digital
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © David Soliday
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: digital
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 3508 pixels × 5349 pixels, 107.41 MB