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Bales of Cotton on the Wharf

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Description: View of the levee with bales of cotton on the wharf. Caption reads: "On The Levee."
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French Market

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Description: Slightly elevated view of the French market. A cart transporting bales of cotton is in the street on the left. Railroad tracks are in the street.
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Willimantic Cotton Mill

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Description: View of Willimantic cotton mills across railroad tracks with three men standing in front. Caption reads: "Willimantic Cotton Mills Corporation, Willimantic...
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Mibbleburg Cotton Mills

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Description: Elevated view of the mills' sprawling building complex. Caption reads: "Middleburg Cotton Mills, Batesburg, S.C."
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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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Cotton Field

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Description: View of a cotton field, location unknown.
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Cotton Field

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Description: View of a cotton field in the Pecos Valley region of Texas.
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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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Cotton Yard

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Description: View of a cotton yard. Bundled cotton waits to be transported. A cotton weighing machine reads: "P.T. Talbot & Son." A house is in the background.
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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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Cotton Gin

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Description: A warehouse and cotton gin. Caption reads: "Cotton Gin, Mission, Texas."
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Crowded Street

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Description: View of a street crowded with people, automobiles, horses and wagons. Many of the wagons are loaded with cotton. Text on the photograph reads, "Publ. by C....

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