Photograph
Abandoned Cotton Field
| View of an abandoned cotton field along the side of a dirt road. A farmhouse and farm buildings are in the distance. |
| Image ID: | 75102 |
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| Creation Date: | 03 18 1915 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Meridian |
| County: | |
| State: | Mississippi |
| Collection Name: | Agricultural Extension Department photograph albums, 1902-1935 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 13Z, Album 38, Box 21, Folder 1 |
| Original Dimensions: | 8 x 6 inches |
| The original typewritten caption reads: "This field - an abandoned Cotton field near Meridian, Miss. shows how many thousands of acres of good Southern land have been ruined by one crop farming. Year after year the field was planted in cotton and after the cotton was taken off, it was let lay all winter with no protecting crop, or pasture, from the heavy dashing rains of the South, during the winter season, and as a consequence, the fertility of the soil has been literally washed away." Photograph taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. Folder: Soils |
| Outdoor photography |
| Cotton |
| Field crops |
| Fields (Agriculture) |
| Plants |
| Trees |
| Farmhouses |
| Erosion |
| Farm buildings |
| Farms |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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