"Dixie Pashas 1861" (1 Viewer)

[PolarBear]

Several months before the first shots of the American Civil War were fired, two cotton planters from South Carolina tour the wonders of Egypt with their wives. A local photographer snaps their photograph as a souvenir to take back home to a soon to be divided nation. Ironically during the war, Egyptian cotton would replace that of the American South as the staple for the English textile mills of Manchester.

Figures from Wm. Hocker Sets 325 and 118

 

[thebritfarmer]

Very nice Randy. I always enjoy viewing your photos and reading your stories and this one is no exception !!!

 

[PolarBear]

Color Version

 

[jazzeum]

Very nicely done Randy.

Maybe you could do one for those Southeners who moved to Brazil following the Civil War.

Here's an interesting article about some of those who did so that was originally published in the Washington Post in 1999. Here's the Wikipedia article. One of the many attractions of Brazil was the plentiful land and climate, not to mention the existence of slavery, which was outlawed in 1889.

 

[PolarBear]

Very nicely done Randy.

Maybe you could do one for those Southeners who moved to Brazil following the Civil War.

Here's an interesting article about some of those who did so that was originally published in the Washington Post in 1999. Here's the Wikipedia article. One of the many attractions of Brazil was the plentiful land and climate, not to mention the existence of slavery, which was outlawed in 1889.

Thanks Brad

I'm also working on a scenario about the ex-Confederates who went to Egypt after the war to train and develop the Egyptian army.

 

[Scott]

That's a fun set up! These figures has many uses.


Off topic, maybe it under scores the 1860s Egypt theme......


Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye

"In 1863 a play of hers was staged, and in the same year she published an account of her travels up the Nile with her son. This poked fun at writing by lady travellers; the title Lispings from Low Latitudes, or, Extracts from the Journal of the Hon. Impulsia Gushington echoed Frederick's book Letters From High Latitudes."


This had to be funny!