Box 7

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image of an African American woman with a basket filled with cotton on her head in the foreground. Several workers can be seen picking cotton in the background. House and trees in the background. Probably in the Aiken, S.C., area. No. 177 of "Characteristic Southern Scenes." Photographed by J. A. Palmer, Aiken. S.C. ca. 1880s. See also Items 37 and 38, in this folder, which show the same house in the background although it is unclear if they were all taken at the same time....

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Alexander City, Ala. Color image of a cotton field in the foreground with a horse-drawn wagon filled with cotton and two pickers shown standing on the wagon. One man shown near the lead horses and more pickers shown in back. Published by Barton and Allen. Postmarked Sept. 30, 1914 in Woburn, Mass. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Color image of cotton pickers in a field of cotton. Older man with a young woman and child in the foreground. Several pickers in the field. All are African American. Buildings and telephone poles in background. Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No. 1098, "Dixie Land." Printed in Germany. Postmarked Dec. 24, 190[?] in Aiken, S.C.; manufactured between 1902 and 1907. 14 x 9 cm. See Item 57, in this folder, for a close-up view of the older man on the left, with different colored...

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Color image of large mound of cotton in foreground, in front of a wagon in a cotton field. An African American man stands with his hand on the wagon and another man is in the wagon with a basket of cotton. Trees seen in the background. Location unknown. C.T. Photochrom card. ca. 1907-1915. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Color image of two separate scenes. Scene on left shows two pickers filling long dragging sacks with cotton. Scene on the right shows a man operating a machine to gather the cotton. Printed on reverse: "While the old method of filling long dragging sacks is still used in the South, the modern mechanical handling enables today's cotton workers to gather manyfold over the quantity possible by hand pickers." Card made in USA by E.C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wis. ca. 1950. 14 x 9 cm....

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Black-and-white image of a man weighing a bale of cotton. The scale is attached to the wagon in the field. Another man is sitting on the ground by the wagon and several pickers can be seen in the background, along with an overseer on horseback. Location unknown. ca. 1907-1915. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Color image shows three mechanical cotton pickers, each with a driver. One man stands in front of the middle cotton picker. On the left is an open railroad car-size trailer full of cotton. Printed on reverse: "Greetings from Dixieland! The modern cotton pickers offer sharp contrast to the back-breaking job of hand picking cotton." Mechanical cotton pickers were introduced in the South in the late 1940s. National Post Card Service, Sebring, Fla. [after 1963] 14 X 9 cm. Format:...

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Color image of Caucasian cotton pickers--men, women, and children--being photographed amid a field of cotton. In the background are two wagons filled with cotton and two men standing on top of them. Souvenir Post Card Co., New York. Printed in Germany. Postmarked Oct. 5, 1908 in Oklahoma [City], Okla. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Color image of cotton pickers, both Caucasian and African American, dragging sacks of cotton in the field as they pick. One of the pickers is a child. Printed on reverse: "A Texas cotton field. Thousands of scenes similar to this make Texas the leading cotton state in the U.S. It produces more than 2,800,000 bales (500 pounds each) yearly on its rich, alluvial lands. Enormous crops find their way to New England mills and to Europe, and yield about $116,000,000 annually. Cotton-seed exceeds...

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Color image of cotton pickers bent over picking cotton in the field. Blue skies and trees depicted in background. No location given. Robert Thomas, P.O. Box 405, Thomasville, Georgia [photographer?]. Plastichrome by Colourpicture Publishers, Inc., Boston 15, Mass. USA. Postmarked Mar. 30, 1956 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.