Item 17: Intermediate picker - view in picker room where cotton is mixed & cleaned of heavy waste

Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a male worker standing by an intermediate picker ("[a] long heavy machine for processing cotton"), with his hand on a picker lap ("sheet of . fiber . rolled under pressure into a cylindrical package"). There are a total of four picker laps on the picker by the man, but many more can be seen in the background on other intermediate pickers. A basket of possible waste-cotton is on the side of the picker opposite the man. The pickers were made by the Kitson Machine Shop, Lowell, Mass. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.