Black woman milling rice, Oakley, South Carolina

Black woman milling rice, Oakley, South Carolina

Oakley (S.C.)
African Americans
Rice
Farms
Cooking and dining

A black woman in Oakley, South Carolina mlls rice by pounding it with a pestle in a large wooden mortar. A man looks on from the doorway.

Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940

Published opposite page 274 in Highways and Byways of the South, by Clifton Johnson.

Jones Library Special Collections

Circa 1902

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Is part of the Clifton Johnson Photograph Collection

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Photographs

CJ-7-28-08-GPN16

Photograph

5 x 7 in.