This photo might be a little tough, but if you’ve traveled around Charleston County, you might have seen it. (That’s about as much of a hint as we’ll give.) First to correctly guess the location of this Michael Kaynard photo gets a pair of ticket vouchers for box seats at a Charleston RiverDogs’ game. Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.
LAST WEEK’S MYSTERY wasn’t too difficult for several, who knew the old stereoscope double-imaged photo was of a rice raft loaded with its bounty.
Veteran photo picker Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant wrote, “It is rice on a barge being brought in to be threshed and winnowed either by hand or at a rice mill.” Photographer Charles Boyd of Hanahan noted that the photo was “a stereoptic — two pictures, side-by-side, which, when seen in a viewer, gave a 3-D effect.” Kristina Wheeler of Charleston added that the development of the rice culture in the state “led to significant changes in the S.C. Lowcountry’s ecological, economical and social systems.” Others with good or close guesses were Legare Clement of Johns Island and Michael T. Cooper of Charleston.
The photo from 1895 is part of more than 250 old stereoscopic (or stereoptic) views of South Carolina from the Digital Collections of the New York Public Library. Many of those photos are of the Charleston area. Click here to see more. The collection has more than 42,000 images from the United States available online.
- If you have a picture with which you’d like to stump our readers, send it along to editor@charlestoncurrents.com.
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