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Cotton Picker with Open Drum
January 20, 1925
Engineering photograph of an experimental pneumatic spindle cotton picker with the drum open.
Cotton Picker with Closed Drum
June 26, 1925
Engineering photograph of an experimental pneumatic spindle cotton picker with its drum closed.
Pneumatic Spindle Cotton Picker
January 20, 1925
Engineering photograph of an experimental pneumatic spindle cotton picker.
Picker Drums and Doffers
August 2, 1934
Engineering photograph of the "tandem arrangement of picker drums and doffers" on an experimental cotton picker.
Picker Drum
November 19, 1930
Engineering photograph of the center section of an experimental cotton picker's picker drum.
Cotton Harvester Drum Box
August 6, 1943
Engineering photograph of an experimental cotton harvester [picker] drum box showing picker bars and doffers.
