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| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of an African American farmer cultivating a cotton field with a stage I McCormick Farmall Super MD tractor. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | African American workers unloading bales of cotton inside a warehouse building. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Farm worker, Frank White, stops harvesting to pose with watermelon found among the cotton crop. The field, part of the O'Neill Ranch located in Helm, Calif... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | African American man harvesting cotton with an experimental McCormick-Deering 2-row cotton picker mounted on a Farmall Regular tractor. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | African American field worker testing an experimental International Harvester cotton picker. Original caption reads: "A close-up front view of the Harveste... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | African American man dumping a load of cotton from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon. |
| Date: | 03 16 1927 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | African American man operating an experimental two-row cotton picker in a field. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Farmer L.C. Carter standing beside bales of cotton and a farm building. |
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| Description: | African American workers picking cotton in a cotton field. Possibly in Mississippi. |
| Date: | 06 1931 |
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| Description: | African Americans picking cotton on a large plantation in Virginia. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A worker operates a machine powered by an International PD-80 power unit at the Rosedale Gin. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Workers tend machinery powered by an International PD-80 power unit at the Wilmot Gin Company. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Agricultural workers harvesting cotton, location unknown. Some of the workers are using horse-drawn plows. Two small buildings are in the distance. Caption... |
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| Description: | Agricultural workers picking cotton by hand. Two children are on the right side of the group. |
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| Description: | Two children pose near a pile of harvested cotton, location unknown. Nearby, another child stands next to a woman picking cotton. |
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| Description: | A group of agricultural workers picking cotton in a field. |
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| Description: | A group of agricultural workers and their children pose with a wagon full of cotton in a cotton field, location unknown. Caption reads: "In The Cotton Fiel... |
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