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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Man harvesting cotton with a McCormick-Deering M-12-H cotton picker. |
| 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: | 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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men are watching as cotton is unloaded from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon. A Farmall tractor is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Man operating an experimental 2-row cotton picker built around a Farmall Regular tractor [original caption reads: "Regular Farmall & 2 row cotton picker"].... |
| 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: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View across cotton field towards right side of a man operating an experimental McCormick-Deering side and rear mounted one-row cotton picker. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Man operating a McCormick-Deering M-11-H cotton picker in a cotton field. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Man harvesting cotton with a McCormick 220-A self-propelled cotton picker. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Man operating a McCormick 214 2-row, low draw cotton picker in a cotton field. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Man harvesting cotton with a McCormick 220 cotton picker. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | HM-110-L cotton picker attached to a Farmall H tractor in a cotton field. A man is sitting at the wheel of the tractor. |
| Date: | 07 24 1929 |
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| 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. |
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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: | 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... |
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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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