Box 7

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Black-and- white image of workers filling three baskets of cotton in a cotton field. Unknown location. Dated October 5, 1913 in Granite Quarry, N.C. by writer (written in French) and postmarked Oct. 6, 1913 in Granite Quarry. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Color photo of two women and one man, all African American, holding cotton in their hands and smiling for the camera. Sample of cotton boll attached in plastic bag. Printed on reverse of card: [first line appears cut off] from the great Cotton fields of Dixie--The seed is grown right in the Cotton. Separate the seed from the cotton, plant several in a flower pot in late April and watch a Cotton plant, grown, bloom and bear Cotton. Plant in sandy, loam soil, water every few days and keep in...

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Black-and-white image of four African American cotton pickers, one female and three male, carrying full baskets of cotton on their heads through a cotton field. Location unknown. Southern Steroscopic Views published by D. J. Ryan, Savannah, Ga. ca. 1875. 17.75 x 10 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image of a group of cotton pickers in a cotton field filling baskets with cotton. Most are men but a few are women. Two overseers on horseback watch in the background. Location unknown. Photographed and published by B. W. Kilburn, Littleton, New Hampshire, ca. 1892. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Winslow Homer, 1876 (Oil on canvas). Image depicts two African-American girls picking cotton in a field. Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ca. 1987. Postcard written in 1998. 15 x 11 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Cotton is king, a plantation scene. Black-and-white image of cotton picking on a plantation. Scene shows piles of cotton in foreground with a basket off to the side. A boy in the foreground appears to be emptying his bag into the pile of cotton. A little girl in a dress is shown sitting on the ground on the right. More workers are picking cotton in the background. All appear to be African American with the exception of the little girl. Niagara Falls, N.Y.: M. H. Zahner, Publisher, ca. 1900....

Scope and Contents Cotton is King--Plantation Scene with Pickers at Work, Georgia. Black-and-white image of African American workers, both male and female, filling baskets with cotton in a cotton field. An overseer on horseback watches in the background. The United States produces more than half of the world's cotton. The annual output is now nearly 12,000,000 bales of 500 pounds each, worth at the plantation approximately $1,800,000,000. It is the country's largest export. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View...

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Black-and-white image of two African American children standing by a basket of cotton amid rows and rows of cotton. More workers depicted in background. Location unknown, but most likely in or near Savannah, Ga. Savannah, Ga.: J. N. Wilson, Photographer and Publisher of the finest selection of stereoscopic views in the South, ca. 1880. 17.75 x 10 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image of a young girl and small child in foreground with a basket of cotton. More workers seen in the background with one person sitting on top of sacks. The cotton field shown in the image may yield 400 pounds to the acre. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image depicts African American men and women picking cotton on a plantation in North Carolina. Note the boy sitting in the cotton basket in the foreground. North Bennington, Vt.: H.C. White Co., ca. 1907. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.