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| Date: | 12 15 1937 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a cotton gin owned by O.L. Gormon. A man stands on a balcony under the overhang of the building at the top of a flight of steps. Another m... |
| Date: | 12 15 1937 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wilmot Gin Company. Two men stand on a ramp in the open second-story door of the building. In the foreground is a platform loaded with... |
| Date: | 11 30 1937 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a cotton gin owned by R.E. Cox. Two men stand beneath the building's overhang and a mule or horse-drawn wagon stands to the left of the bu... |
| Date: | 11 30 1937 |
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| Description: | A worker stands at a machine inside a cotton gin owned by R.E. Cox. |
| Date: | 12 15 1937 |
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| Description: | Workers tend machines inside the Long Short Gin. The machinery was powered by an International PD-80 power unit. |
| Date: | 12 19 1937 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the cotton gin at Siut-Me Gin Company. Bales of cotton are piled on a platform in the foreground, and horse-drawn and tractor-drawn wagons... |
| Date: | 12 15 1937 |
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| Description: | Workers operate machinery powered by an International PD-80 power unit at Siut-Me Gin Company. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men standing around as a number of bales of cotton are being counted on the cotton compress. Caption reads: "Cotton Compress, Shawnee, Oklahoma." |
| Date: | 03 18 1915 |
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| Description: | View of an abandoned cotton field along the side of a dirt road. A farmhouse and farm buildings are in the distance. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three men wearing hats are sitting on top of baled cotton loaded in a wagon. The wagon is led by two horses and is traveling down a dirt road in what appea... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A bundled cotton bale rests on a wooden platform at a loading dock or train depot. A train car on a railroad track is alongside the right of the platform. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | J.H. Gilchrist, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, eyeglasses, and long coat, is standing in a cotton field on his farm to show his granddaughter, Lelia Sykes, th... |
| Date: | 02 09 1915 |
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| Description: | A man sits on a bale of cotton piled on top of wooden boards in a field. Two men stand near him and another man or young boy sits on a bale in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 02 23 1915 |
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| Description: | Bales of cotton stored in the middle of a damp dirt road. Houses or storefronts are on both sides of the road in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children picking cotton in a field. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Advertising brochure for Parlin & Orendorff's Tip-Top single speed cotton planters. The inside spread features a color illustration of a planter and the ca... |
| Date: | 02 19 1915 |
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| Description: | Speakers from the diversified farming program stand in front of a brick building near an awning. Each person wears a winter coat and brimmed hat, and there... |
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