Real photo postcard showing four men in a cotton field. N.p.: n.p., circa 1909. Captioned in the negative: “In the Cotton Fields 14 Miles South Ponca OK.” A white overseer stands at center smoking a pipe and writing in a notebook. Three other men, two African Americans and a man who is perhaps Hispanic or American Indian, have large bags and hold handfuls of cotton. Autograph note stamped and signed on verso from Edith, Okarche, Oklahoma, to Mr. C. C. Pitzer, Patwin, Kansas, 22 February 1909. Cotton was first planted in Oklahoma by the Choctaw Nation in 1825, though production was halted at the end of the Civil War. By the mid-1870s, recovery was underway; tribal law forbade Native Americans from leasing their lands to outsiders, but several “employed" tenants cultivated 80 percent of the cotton farms in Indian Territory by 1900. In 1907, when Oklahoma achieved statehood, farmers in all but three Oklahoma counties grew cotton on nearly one quarter the state’s cultivated acreage. Condition: Lower left corner lightly creased, verso toned.
Real photo postcard showing four men in a cotton field. N.p.: n.p., circa 1909. Captioned in the negative: “In the Cotton Fields 14 Miles South Ponca OK.” A white overseer stands at center smoking a pipe and writing in a notebook. Three other men, two African Americans and a man who is perhaps Hispanic or American Indian, have large bags and hold handfuls of cotton. Autograph note stamped and signed on verso from Edith, Okarche, Oklahoma, to Mr. C. C. Pitzer, Patwin, Kansas, 22 February 1909. Cotton was first planted in Oklahoma by the Choctaw Nation in 1825, though production was halted at the end of the Civil War. By the mid-1870s, recovery was underway; tribal law forbade Native Americans from leasing their lands to outsiders, but several “employed" tenants cultivated 80 percent of the cotton farms in Indian Territory by 1900. In 1907, when Oklahoma achieved statehood, farmers in all but three Oklahoma counties grew cotton on nearly one quarter the state’s cultivated acreage. Condition: Lower left corner lightly creased, verso toned.
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