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Picking Cotton

Date: 06 1931
Description: African Americans picking cotton on a large plantation in Virginia.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Pioneer Cotton Mill

Date: 1910
Description: A young boy and a man are shown among the machinery in the carding room of the Pioneer Cotton Mill, which was in full operation by 1910, with W. H. Coyle a...
Photograph

Cotton Compress with Bales of Cotton

Date: 1915
Description: Thousands of bales of cotton with a water tower and a building with smokestacks in the background. Caption reads: "Ada Compress, 10,000 Bales Cotton In Sig...
Photograph

Counting Bales of Cotton

Date: 1905
Description: Men standing around as a number of bales of cotton are being counted on the cotton compress. Caption reads: "Cotton Compress, Shawnee, Oklahoma."
Poster

Movie Poster for "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: A man and woman look out of a window at people picking cotton in a field. The two are well-dressed.
Photograph

Frame 11: Man and Woman Picking Cotton

Date: 1964
Description: A man and a woman pick cotton by hand.
Photograph

Three Women Preparing Cotton

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from Japan and South Korea, Carrie describes the process of preparing cotton to be used for yarn or clothing. This image shows three women w...

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