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Cultivating Cotton Field with McCormick Farmall Super MD Tractor

Date: 1953
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 ...
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Man Harvesting Cotton with Mechanical Picker

Date: 1932
Description: African American man harvesting cotton with an experimental McCormick-Deering 2-row cotton picker mounted on a Farmall Regular tractor.
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Experimental International Harvester Cotton Picker

Date: 1937
Description: Man operating an experimental International Harvester cotton picker in a cotton field on the Hopson Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Two automobil...
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Cotton Picker on Farmall Regular Tractor

Date: 1932
Description: Man operating an experimental 2-row cotton picker built around a Farmall Regular tractor [original caption reads: "Regular Farmall & 2 row cotton picker"]....
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McCormick-Deering Cotton Picker Mounted on a Farmall Tractor

Date: 1932
Description: African American man operating an experimental two-row cotton picker in a field.
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New Mechanical Cotton Picker

Date: 1942
Description: Two cotton pickers, the first driven by Fowler McCormick, president of the International Harvester Company, drive through a field on the Hopson Planting Co...
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Hopson Plantation

Date: 1942
Description: Farm buildings stand in the distance at the Hopson Planting Company's plantation.
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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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Hopson Plantation

Date: 1942
Description: Several buildings on the Hopson Planting Company's plantation.
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Peacock Gin

Date: 12 15 1937
Description: Wagons loaded with cotton are parked outside the Peacock Gin. A man stands on a platform to the left of the wagons. The sign on the building reads: "Seed T...
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Peacock Gin Interior

Date: 12 15 1937
Description: Men operate machinery powered by an International PD-80 power unit inside the Peacock cotton gin.
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Rosedale Gin

Date: 12 15 1937
Description: Exterior view of the Rosedale Gin, powered by an International PD-80. Two trucks are parked near the building. One of the trucks has a wagon attached.
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International PD-80 at Rosedale Cotton Gin

Date: 12 15 1937
Description: International PD-80 power unit at Rosedale Gin.
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Rosedale Gin Interior

Date: 1937
Description: A worker operates a machine powered by an International PD-80 power unit at the Rosedale Gin.
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Wilmot Gin Company

Date: 1937
Description: Workers tend machinery powered by an International PD-80 power unit at the Wilmot Gin Company.
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Workers at Cotton Gin Machines

Date: 12 15 1937
Description: Three men operate machinery inside a cotton gin owned by O.L. Garmon.
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Cotton Gin Exterior

Date: 12 15 1937
Description: Exterior view of a cotton gin owned by O.L. Gormon. A man stands on a balcony under the overhang of the building at the top of a flight of steps. Another m...
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Cotton Gin Building

Date: 12 15 1937
Description: Exterior view of the Wilmot Gin Company. Two men stand on a ramp in the open second-story door of the building. In the foreground is a platform loaded with...
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Long Short Cotton Gin

Date: 12 15 1937
Description: Workers tend machines inside the Long Short Gin. The machinery was powered by an International PD-80 power unit.
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Siut-Me Gin Company

Date: 12 19 1937
Description: Exterior view of the cotton gin at Siut-Me Gin Company. Bales of cotton are piled on a platform in the foreground, and horse-drawn and tractor-drawn wagons...

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