A Carolina Rice Planter
This image depicts a rice planter playing a banjo standing up with one leg on a log in Carolina. It accompanies an article by T. Addison Richards called "The Rice Lands of the South" (pp. 721-38). Thomas Addison Richards (1820–1900) was a British landscape artist, who migrated with his family to the United States in 1831. The family first settled in New York, then South Carolina and finally Georgia by 1837. Richards made a career of sketching Georgia’s scenery. Harper's Magazine (also called Harper's) is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance and the arts.
Image Title
A Carolina Rice Planter
RegID
SI-OB-293
Date
1859
Title
A Carolina Rice Planter
Source
Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1859), vol. 19, p. 738. Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library.
Language
English
Item sets
Music, Dance & Recreational Activities
Spatial Coverage
North America--South Carolina
Reproduced In
Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1859), vol. 19, p. 738.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
HW19-738