Individuals With Cotton
Hat, basket, striped pantsAlways on the left of the note, this appears on the Texas, Washington County, $3 (no date), the Southern Railroad Company, $5 (1862) from Vicksburg, Mississippi, notes issued by Louisiana merchant John Bishop (1860s) and Josiah Morris Banker (1862) of Montgomery, Alabama.
This image can be found on the Arkansas Treasury Warrant, $10 (1862). It appears with a red "V" overprint on the Louisiana, St. John the Baptist Parish, $5 (1862).
Hat, basket, barefoot
Alone in field, river boat in distanceThis image appears only on the denominations of the Louisiana, Red River Packet Company, $2 (1861).
This unique vignette is featured only on the New Orleans Bank of Improvement, $50 (1840).
Note the seed coming from the slave's hand. It is unknown whether he is sowing for a plantation owner or himself using seeds brought over from Africa. New Orleans was the leading slave importing port in America and many seeds were introduced from salves' native lands.
Individual sowing
Individual with basket, two bushesVirginia, Traders Bank of Richmond, $20 (UNC)
A realistic variation of this stylized image found on the T-29 note illustrates the following notes:
Bank of South Carolina, $20 (1857)
North Carolina, Bank of Lexington, $5 (1861)
Picking cotton, two baskets
Smiling slave with basketGeorgia, Bank of Greensborough, $2 (1858)
State of Mississippi, 50 cents (1864)
Slave with hat hoeing, rear view