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Cotton Storage Bin

Date: 1942
Description: Piles of cotton fill a storage bin at the Hopson Planting Company plantation.
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Farmall H with Cotton Planter

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a McCormick Farmall H tractor with a forward cotton planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "'Blackla...
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Farmall H Tractor with Cotton Planter

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a McCormick Farmall H tractor outfitted with a cotton planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "'Furro...
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Farmall H with Cotton Planter

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a McCormick Farmall H tractor with a HM-278 cotton planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "'Bed' pla...
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Super A Tractor with Cotton Planter

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a Farmall Super A tractor with a cotton planter attachment to plant in a field. The original caption reads: "'Bed' pl...
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Farmall M with Cotton Planter

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a McCormick Farmall M tractor with a forward mounted cotton planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "...
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Cotton Yard

Date: 
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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Bales of Cotton in Storage

Date: 
Description: Outdoor elevated view of a large storage area with thousands of bales of cotton. A few houses or other buildings can be seen in the background. Caption rea...
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Abandoned Cotton Field

Date: 03 18 1915
Description: View of an abandoned cotton field along the side of a dirt road. A farmhouse and farm buildings are in the distance.
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Baled Cotton Stored in Middle of Street

Date: 02 23 1915
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.
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Men in Yard Weighing Bales of Cotton

Date: 1905
Description: Men in a residential backyard using a hanging scale to weigh bales of cotton loaded on a wagon pulled by a team of work horses.
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Cabin and Cotton Field

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of a small cabin located near a cotton field. There is a cemetery in the far background.
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Mrs. John T. Shea, Tractorette

Date: 1942
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a woman on a Farmall H tractor in a field. Caption: "A very successful tractorette class of twenty women was organize...
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Mrs. John T. Shea, Tractorette

Date: 1942
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a woman on a Farmall H tractor in a field. Caption on accompany photograph: "A very successful tractorette class of t...

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