A girl dressed as Columbia stands in the center of the back row, and several students are dressed as Puritans, Indians, and other historical figures. More children are seated in the audience in front of the stage.
Several of the men are also Confederate veterans; they are wearing fringed collars with stars. William L. Chandler is the first person seated on the right in the front row. The group may have posed for the photograph after a memorial service for...
Standing, left to right: General William Banks of Houston, Texas; General W. W. Alexander of Rockhill, South Carolina; General J. D. Ford of Marshall, Texas; General T. H. Dowling of Atlanta, Georgia; General James W. Moore of Selma, Alabama;...
Included are Alabama Representatives Benjamin Sterling Turner, James Thomas Rapier, and Jeremiah Haralson. Turner served from 1871 to 1873, Rapier served from 1873 to 1875, and Haralson served from 1875 to 1877.
An African American man sits on the machine and two other men, presumably owners or inventors, stand beside it. Lucy Bell Railey took the photograph in a cotton field near Selma, Alabama.