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Sunny Side Plantation
Coovert created a photo album about Sunny Side Plantation, Ark., in 1893. Its owner, New York banker, railroad magnate, and land developer Austin Corbin, created a model of industrial efficiency. Faced with scarce labor, he imported immigrants from northern Italy. The plantation had a railroad, sawmill, and several steamers, in addition to the enterprises commonly found on cotton plantations -- a gin, stores, livestock, and warehouses. It has been documented in Shadows Over Sunnyside, by Jeannie Whayne.
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401. Looking down Railroad Track from Gin House, showing Sunny Side City. |
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| 400. Blacksmith shop at Sunnyside. |
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| 407. General Manager’s residence, cotton house in the distance. |
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| 403. Hauling Cotton from field. |
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| 410. Saw Mill belonging to Company. |
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| 416. Sunny Side store, office and engine house. |
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| 418. Section hands working the railroad track. |
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| 419. Manager's house at Midway. |
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| 438. Hay rack and barn yard at Midway. |
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| 428. Cotton gin and seed house, Sunny Side. |
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| 440. Interior of store at saw mill. |
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| 449. Teams hauling in corn fodder. |
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| Train George S. Edgell at Sunny Side Landing with what appear to be Italian families. |
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| Mill Crew. Unnumbered photo, signed Coovert. |
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