Agriculture

Take a historical look at agriculture and farming in the state of South Carolina.

Tobacco Farmer Painting by Richard Lofton | History of SC Slide Collection

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Tobacco Farmer Painting by Richard Lofton | History of SC Slide Collection

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Artist Richard Lofton painted this tobacco farmer during the 1930s. Courtesy of the Collection of the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina. Richard Morrison Lofton, American, 1908-1966....

A Keowee Church Farm Cotton Picking | History of SC Slide Collection

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A Keowee Church Farm Cotton Picking | History of SC Slide Collection

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"A Keowee Church Farm Cotton Picking." This photograph of whites picking cotton, taken around 1900 in York County, is from the collection of Miss Margaret Gist. She was active in the missionary...

Rice Trunks | South Carolina Public Radio

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Rice Trunks | South Carolina Public Radio

"R" is for Rice Trunks.

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Asparagus | South Carolina Public Radio

"A" is for Asparagus. Asparagus was an important cash crop in South Carolina from the 1910s until the mid-1930s. With cotton prices low and the boll weevil creeping closer, farmers in the "Ridge"...

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Drovers | South Carolina Public Radio

“D” is for Drovers. From around 1800 until the 1880s, livestock from Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina were driven through Greenville County to the seaport at Charleston—destined for...

Seigler, Marie Samuella Cromer | South Carolina Public Radio

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Seigler, Marie Samuella Cromer | South Carolina Public Radio

“S” is for Seigler, Marie Samuella Cromer [1882-1964]. Educator. Girl’s club founder. In 1909, Seigler, an Abbeville County native, heard a representative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture extoll...

A Rice Raft with Plantation Hands | History of SC Slide Collection

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A Rice Raft with Plantation Hands | History of SC Slide Collection

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"A rice raft with plantation hands, near Georgetown." From a Keystone View Company stereograph card, around 1890. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Workers Flooding the Rice Fields Watercolor by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith | History of SC Slide Collection

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Workers Flooding the Rice Fields Watercolor by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith | History of SC Slide Collection

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A watercolor by Alice Huger Ravenel Smith of workers flooding the rice fields. Courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art/Carolina Art Association.

Plowing Rice | History of SC Slide Collection

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Plowing Rice | History of SC Slide Collection

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Plowing rice. Engraving from "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," November 1878. Courtesy of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

Darlington Dairy Plant | History of SC Slide Collection

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Darlington Dairy Plant | History of SC Slide Collection

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James Alford, Ernest Staton, and Bright Stevenson work in the interior of the Staton Dairy barn in Darlington County around 1923. Courtesy of the Darlington County Historical Commission.

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