Lot 831
An Extraordinary Photographic Album of Life on a Southern Louisiana Sugar Plantation, c. 1900, containing seventy-four vintage silver gelatin prints, 3.75in. x 4.875in. Includes images of Steamboat U.S. Joseph Henry, African-American field hands cultivating, harvesting and transporting sugar cane to the mill, transporting of coal delivered by the boat W.D. Coyle & Co., No. 11 by hand carts across wooden conveyors to mule drawn wagons, a crevasse and an African-American funeral procession. Architectural photographs of the residential "big" house, barn and storage sheds, chicken coop, numerous views of the sugar mill, scale cabin for weighing sugar, workers' cabins and "Frellsen" train stop. E1000/1500 Note: The Statement of Sugar Crop, Made in Louisiana in 1859-60 by P.A. Champomier, shows a Henry Frellson of Fairview Plantation on the left bank of St. Charles Parish Frellson's Fairview Plantation maybe the one depicted in the album.
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