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Peacock Gin Interior

Date: 12 15 1937
Description: Men operate machinery powered by an International PD-80 power unit inside the Peacock cotton gin.
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Rosedale Gin Interior

Date: 1937
Description: A worker operates a machine powered by an International PD-80 power unit at the Rosedale Gin.
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Wilmot Gin Company

Date: 1937
Description: Workers tend machinery powered by an International PD-80 power unit at the Wilmot Gin Company.
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Workers at Cotton Gin Machines

Date: 12 15 1937
Description: Three men operate machinery inside a cotton gin owned by O.L. Garmon.
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R.E. Cox Cotton Gin Interior

Date: 11 30 1937
Description: A worker stands at a machine inside a cotton gin owned by R.E. Cox.
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Long Short Cotton Gin

Date: 12 15 1937
Description: Workers tend machines inside the Long Short Gin. The machinery was powered by an International PD-80 power unit.
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Cotton Gin Interior

Date: 12 15 1937
Description: Workers operate machinery powered by an International PD-80 power unit at Siut-Me Gin Company.
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Dock Scene

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Description: Elevated view of a dock scene, where workers are preparing bales of cotton for loading. A steamship and a tugboat are nearby. More ships and the shoreline ...
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Picking Cotton

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Description: Agricultural workers harvesting cotton, location unknown. Some of the workers are using horse-drawn plows. Two small buildings are in the distance. Caption...
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Hand Picking Cotton

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Description: Agricultural workers picking cotton by hand. Two children are on the right side of the group.
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Harvesting Cotton

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Description: Two children pose near a pile of harvested cotton, location unknown. Nearby, another child stands next to a woman picking cotton.
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Picking Cotton

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Description: A group of agricultural workers in a cotton field near Temple. Two men use a weighing device to weigh a bushel basket full of cotton. Two small children ar...
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Picking Cotton

Date: 1905
Description: A group of agricultural workers picking cotton in the vicinity of Shawnee. Several children are in the field. The cotton is being loaded into a horse-drawn...
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Picking Cotton

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Description: A group of agricultural workers picking cotton in a field.
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In the Cotton Field

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Description: A group of agricultural workers and their children pose with a wagon full of cotton in a cotton field, location unknown. Caption reads: "In The Cotton Fiel...
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Man Carrying Cotton

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an African American man carrying a bushel basket full of cotton, location unknown.
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Cotton Workers

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Description: Posed studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two African American agricultural workers picking cotton, location unknown. A little girl sits in a...
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Shipping Cotton

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Description: Workers load bales of cotton onto a ship. The bales are being hoisted up ramps and onto the ship.
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Cotton Compress

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Description: Two men hold carts of cotton bales in front of the warehouse of a cotton compress.
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Cotton Compress

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Description: A man stands next to the bales of cotton at the cotton compress. Caption reads: "Cotton Compress, New Albany, Miss."

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