Just by looking at this old stereoscopic photo of a South Carolina rice raft, you can tell a lot has changed in South Carolina over the last 121 years. Not only is rice, once a staple of state agriculture, virtually gone, so too are thousands and thousands of agricultural workers thanks to mechanization and shifts in the state’s culture and economy. This image is one of 269 from South Carolina that is part of the Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views at the New York Public Library’s Digital Collections.
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