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Man Operating M-12-H Cotton Picker

Date: 1948
Description: Man harvesting cotton with a McCormick-Deering M-12-H cotton picker.
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"Old Red" Cotton Picker

Date: 1969
Description: "Old Red," the "first commercial cotton picker," and a new International 622 cotton picker en route to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "Ol...
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Experimental Cotton Picker

Date: 03 16 1927
Description: Right side profile view of a man pulling an experimental pull-type cotton picker through a cotton field with a Farmall Regular tractor. Another man is stan...
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Farm Worker Loading Cotton into Trailer

Date: 1942
Description: Farm worker dumping cotton from an International Harvester cotton picker into a trailer pulled by a Farmall M tractor.
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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...
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Cotton Picker on Display at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 06 03 1933
Description: Farmall tractor and mounted experimental cotton-picker on display in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair. The c...
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Hopson Plantation

Date: 1942
Description: Several buildings on the Hopson Planting Company's plantation.
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Cotton Bales in Wagon

Date: 1919
Description: A wagon loaded with bales of cotton sits in front of a loading dock. The wagon was possibly made by the Weber Wagon Company.
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Men Examine Cotton Picker

Date: 1945
Description: A group of men gather around a cotton picker on display at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
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Farmall C with Cotton Planter

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a Farmall C tractor with a cotton planter attachment to plant cotton in a field. The original caption reads: "C-277 b...
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Planting Cotton with Farmall Cub

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a Farmall Cub with a forward-mounted cotton planter attachment to work in a field. The original caption reads: "Plant...
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Farmall C with Cotton Planter

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man using a Farmall C tractor with a forward-mounted cotton planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "'Furrow' planting with ...
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Farmall C Tractor with Cotton Planter

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a Farmall C tractor with a forward-mounted cotton planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "C-278 runn...
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Farmall C Planting Cotton

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a McCormick Farmall C tractor with a forward-mounted cotton picker attachment to work in a field. The original captio...
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Farmall M Planting Cotton

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 Gin

Date: 01 13 1938
Description: Two men use horse-drawn wagons to haul loads of cotton near a cotton gin powered by an International PD-80 unit. A sign on the barn reads: "Bassett Gin."
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Men with Cotton Bales

Date: 1925
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...
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J.D. (his Crest.)

Date: 1860
Description: The "crest" of Jefferson Davis has a horizontal blue field at the top with white stars representing the seceding states. Three vertical fields (red-white-r...
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John Bull in His Perilous Feat of Horsemanship

Date: 1860
Description: John Bull is carrying a bale of cotton on his shoulders. He is standing with one foot on each of two galloping horses. One horse labeled "UNION" has a Unio...
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Diversified Farming Speakers

Date: 02 19 1915
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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