Photograph
Experimental Cotton Picker
| Engineering photograph of an experimental single-row, two drum, self-propelled cotton picker parks. The photograph was taken outside the office of International Harvester's Tractor Works and displays the right side of the machine with the cotton container elevated half-way to show the blower and rear cleaner. The door is released. |
| Image ID: | 49927 |
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| Creation Date: | 08 03 1933 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Chicago |
| County: | |
| State: | Illinois |
| Collection Name: | Cotton picker field test notes and photographs, 1922-1963 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | M2002-156, Box 3, Folder 4 |
| Original Dimensions: | 10 x 8 inches |
| The International model "H-10-H," the world's first commercially successful mechanical cotton picker, was a one-row, spindle-type picker that employed a barbed spindle. Although a number of variations on the machine had been tested previously, economic and social conditions prevented further development and mass availability of the cotton picker until the late 1940's. |
| Agricultural machinery |
| Cotton |
| Harvesting |
| Commercial buildings |
| Factories |
| Agricultural machinery industry |
| Engineering |
| Outdoor photography |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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