Photograph
New Mechanical Cotton Picker
| Two cotton pickers, the first driven by Fowler McCormick, president of the International Harvester Company, drive through a field on the Hopson Planting Company's plantation to demonstrate the effectiveness of the new machines. |
| Image ID: | 49876 |
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| Creation Date: | 1942 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Clarksdale |
| County: | |
| State: | Mississippi |
| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company corporate archives central file (documented series), 1819-1998 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 6Z, Box 168, File 2061 |
| Original Dimensions: | 10 x 8 inches |
| The original photograph caption reads: "Two of International Harvester's cotton pickers working on the Hopson Planting Company's plantation near Clarksdale, Miss. The photograph shows clearly the effectiveness of the picker in the contrast between the picked and unpicked portions of the field. The first picker is here being driven by Fowler McCormick, president of the International Harvester Company." |
| Plantations |
| Clothing and dress |
| Agricultural machinery |
| Executives |
| Cotton |
| Field crops |
| Harvesting |
| Men |
| Farms |
| Land use, Rural |
| Agricultural machinery industry |
| McCormick family |
| Croplands |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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