Box 7
Contains 194 Results:
Item 49: Cotton Picking, 1905
Color image of African American pickers, three men and one woman, in the field with baskets of cotton. Horse and wagon and trees depicted in background. Published by Carter & Gut, N.Y., for the Kress Stores. Postmarked Sept. 18, 1905 in Rome, Georgia. 14 x 9 cm. See Item 53, in this folder, for what appears to be the same image, but with different coloring of the clothes, a slightly different pose of the man in the middle, and a different publisher.
Format: Postcard.
Item 50: Old Time Pine Log Hut, Macon, Ga.
Color image of log cabin with an African American woman and three children in doorway of cabin, presumed to be cotton pickers. Flowering shrubs in foreground. Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No. 2074 "Macon, Ga." Dated Sept. 11, 1903 on front. 14 x 9 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 51: Cotton Pickers At Work, in Dixieland, 1946
Color image of several pickers in the field, all bent over picking cotton. Published by Asheville Post Card Co., Asheville, N.C. Postmarked June 3, 1946 in Lake City, Fla. 14 x 9 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 52: Picking cotton
Color image of many pickers in the field, most of whom appear to be African American, filling baskets of cotton. A wagon with men loading the cotton is depicted on the right. An overseer on horseback is in the background. ca. 1907-1915. 14 x 9 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 53: Cotton Picking, Pinehurst, N.C.
Color image of a half dozen cotton pickers, all African American, bent over picking cotton in the field. Two large baskets filled with cotton are shown in foreground. E. L. Merrow, Publ. Postmarked Feb. 23, [1920?] in Pinehurst, N.C. 14 x 9 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 53: In the Cotton Field, 1905
Item 54: Picking Cotton, Arizona
Color image of pickers filling long sacks with cotton. Wagon with a man standing on top loading cotton on the right. Two men are shown weighing the cotton. Published by Harry Herz, 754 E. Culver St., Phoenix, Arizona. ca. 1915-1930. 14 x 9 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 55: Mammoth Lodi Cotton (Valdosta, Georgia), 1910
Item 56: Cotton Picking, Savannah, Georgia
Black-and-white image of cotton pickers in the field. Some pickers in the foreground are shown with baskets on their shoulders. Trees shown in background. ca. 1890 17.5 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 57: "De Lan' O' Cotton," New Orleans, La.
Color image of an older African American man picking cotton and putting it into his sack. A woman is off the the side watching him. A wooden building is in the background. F. L. Howe, Atlanta [photographer?]. ca. 1907-1915. 8.75 x 13.5 cm. See Item 41, in this folder, for this same man in a wider view, with different colored clothes, and no location given.
Format: Postcard.