Aerial photograph of the Waccamaw, Great Pee Dee and Black Rivers
date: label: Date
content: 2012
name: label: Photograph by
content: David Soliday, American
notes: label: Caption
content: SC – Georgetown, The Waccamaw River. Georgetown was a huge center for rice cultivation with possibly as much as 35.000 acres under cultivation. The fields are in various phases of disintegration. –Description from photographer, David Soliday.
label: Description
content: A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along sections of three rivers: Waccamaw River, Great Pee Dee River and Black River. Black River can be seen along the image’s far right edge before it meanders slightly left and converges with the Great Pee Dee River, which emerges from the lower half of the image’s left edge. The Waccamaw can be seen farthest left. Both L.H. Siau Bridges are faintly visible in the distance, rising above the Waccamaw and the Great Pee Dee, just below Waccamaw point were the rivers converge. South of Waccamaw point, Hare Island and Rabbit Island can be seen in the river, indistinguishable from each other. The fields through which the rivers flow appear bright green in the sunlight, in contrast to the water’s deep blue and the dark green of the distant vegetation.
place: label: Place captured
content: Waccamaw River, Georgetown, Georgetown 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: 2014.216.68
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: 4698 pixels × 7039 pixels, 189.27 MB