Item 15: Cotton laps as delivered from finisher picker

Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a male worker as he operates the finisher picker, which is the last machine in the process of picking. It is fed with four laps from a breaker or intermediate picker and delivers the finished lap for the card. A trolley, fully loaded with picker laps, is seen in the left foreground, in front of the man. See also Items 11, 16, and 18, in this folder, for nearly identical images of this worker. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.