Colonial Plantation Houses: Top Photos

Columned grandeur built on the labour of enslaved people in the antebellum South

Scope and content: The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: With trees hanging in the foreground, the two-story Houmas House Plantation sits majestically on a well-man
Scope and content: The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: With trees hanging in the foreground, the two-story Houmas House Plantation sits majestically on a well-man © Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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