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Price-Campbell Cotton Picker

Date: 1924
Description: Man on the Price-Campbell cotton picker.
Photograph

Experimental Cotton Picker Mounted on a Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1944
Description: Field test of an experimental International Harvester cotton picker mounted on a Farmall B tractor. The caption reads "Experimental IH low-drum 1-row Farma...
Book or Pamphlet

Cotton King Disk Harrow Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Cotton King disk harrows sold by International Harvester. Features an illustration of a man with two horses tilling the...
Photograph

French Market

Date: 
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.
Photograph

African American Cotton Farmer

Date: 1915
Description: Farmer L.C. Carter standing beside bales of cotton and a farm building.
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Cotton Market

Date: 02 09 1915
Description: A group of wagons filled with cotton bales in the street at market.
Poster

McCormick-Deering Farmall Tractors Advertising Poster

Date: 1926
Description: Advertising poster for Farmall tractors. Features a color illustration, on the top half, of a man using a Farmall tractor and a Farmall cultivator in a cor...
Photograph

Photographer at Cotton Harvest

Date: 1921
Description: A cameraman films a man stooping to pick cotton while other people are looking on from the background.
Photograph

Boy on Bale of Cotton

Date: 1921
Description: A young boy seated on a bale of cotton in front of a farm building looks toward a man standing next to him.
Photograph

How the Cotton Picker Works

Date: 1948
Description: Cutaway left side profile view illustration of cotton picker on Farmall M tractor, including the silhouette of a man sitting at the controls. Caption reads...
Photograph

Cotton Picker on Farmall H Tractor Cutaway

Date: 1946
Description: Cutaway left side profile view illustration of cotton picker on Farmall M tractor, including the silhouette of a man sitting at the controls. Writing on th...
Photograph

Cotton Duster

Date: 07 24 1929
Description: A man spraying a cotton crop with a Farmall Regular tractor and a McCormick-Deering cotton duster owned by J.R. Clark of Dallas, Texas.
Photograph

Cotton Picker

Date: 06 28 1944
Description: Engineering photograph of a man behind the wheel of a "1944 season" cotton picker mounted on a Farmall B tractor. There is a large canvas behind the cotton...
Photograph

Weighing Cotton

Date: 1920
Description: Men weigh(?) bales of cotton on a wooden platform, while other men load or unload bales onto a wagon drawn by mules.
Photograph

Men with Cotton Bales

Date: 1920
Description: Men lead two mules in hauling a wagon full of cotton bales near what appears to be a weighing station on a wooden platform.
Photograph

Cotton Bales on Wagon

Date: 1920
Description: Two men place a bale of cotton on top of a pile on the back of a mule-drawn wagon. They are near what appears to be a weighing station on a wooden platform...
Book or Pamphlet

Picking Cotton

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

Experimental Cotton Picker

Date: 08 24 1927
Description: Two men in a cotton field with a Farmall Regular tractor and an experimental cotton picker. Original caption reads: "McCormick-Deering Cotton Picker and Fa...
Photograph

Man with Mound of Stripped Cotton

Date: 07 25 1927
Description: Man examines a pile of stripped cotton. Original caption reads: "Dumping Stripped Cotton. When the gathering box is filled with stripped cotton, the bolls ...
Photograph

Hinsdale Demonstration

Date: 1945
Description: A man demonstrates a McCormick-Deering cotton picker under a tent on the Hinsdale experimental farm.

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