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Color image of a packet floating in a river. The boat is piled high with cotton bales. Workers can be seen standing on top of the cotton bales, and also on a platform on the lower part of the front of the boat. ca. 1907-1915. See also Item 55, in this folder, for basically the same image with some explanation of Mississippi River packets. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of a male worker sitting on a bale of cotton on the waterfront. The ground behind the worker is covered with cotton bales. A boat can be seen floating down the river in the background. Bluff City News Co., Memphis, Tenn. "C.T. Art-Colortone" made only by Curt Teich & Co., Inc., Chicago. ca. 1930-1944. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of a packet boat in a river, piled high with cotton bales. A large number of workers can be seen sitting and standing on top of the bales and on a platforn at the lower part of the front of the boat. The riverbank is visible in the background of the image. Adolf Selige Pub. Co., St. Louis--Leipzig. Printed in Germany. ca. 1907-1915. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image shows three mule-driven carts loaded with raw cotton. The ginning building is in the background where two overhead chutes transport the cotton through its process. Curteich-Chicago "C.T. Art Colortone" postcard published by or for Bluff City News Co., Memphis, Tenn. ca. 1930-1944. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image shows a light-colored, two-story building in the center of a field where horse-drawn carts filled with raw cotton await their turn at the gin. Buildings in the background to the right include a brick building with a tall smokestack. A bridge runs behind the buildings on the left. Published by The Leighton & Valentine Co., N.Y. City. Printed in United States. Postmarked Jan. 28, 1913 in Lexington, S.C. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image shows workman arranging cotton within a wooden bin to prepare for baling. What is shown here is the plantation "flat" or gin-box bale. After the cotton is ginned it is pressed to a density of 12 pounds or more to the square foot, covered with sacking and shipped to the compress for repressing. No location given. 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 shows a mule-drawn cart of cotton backed into the area where a workman is guiding the suction pipe to move the cotton into the gin. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Color image shows workmen unloading hemp from a ship onto the dock. Many workers visible on ship and on dock. Railroad cars are adjacent to the dock on the left. Adolph Selige Pub. Co., , St. Louis - Leipzig - Halberstadt. ca. 1902-1907. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Color image of an old cotton press, several portions of which appear to be falling down or missing. A man and a dog can be seen standing next to it on the left. Printed on the reverse of the card: "The Old Antebellum Cotton Press. Each plantation had its own gin and cotton press, operated by mule power. The seed cotton was held in a box, inside of which was a grate of steel bars; between this were notched steel discs, which rotated rapidly and separated the fibre from the seeds; a cylinder...

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Color image shows a wooden cart with bags of cotton seed being drawn by a team of four oxen. A man sits by the cart and another person is partially visible in the background in front of a brick building. "Phostint" card made only by Detroit Publishing Company. Detroit Photographic Company. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.