Item 129: Cotton gins--one of the greatest industrial inventions--separating fibre from seed--Texas

Black- and-white image shows row of four ginning machines. One workman is tending to a machine. The picked cotton is removed from the loaded wagon by a suction pipe, which conveys it to the vacuum separator and cleaner, in order to remove all twigs, leaves and imjpurities. The waste is dumped into one place, the seeds blown into another, without danger of impairing their vitality, and the cotton is deposited on the ginning floor ready for baling. New York: Underwood and Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 9 cm. See Item 126, in this folder, for the same title and information on the reverse but a different image.

Format: Stereoptic print.