Box 8

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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.

Scope and Contents Sorting Wool after Cleaning and Washing, Lawrence, Mass. Black-and-white image of men working at tables hand-pulling wool as part of sorting process. In the foreground, a man is surrounded by piles of wool and baskets into which the wool is separated. He is grading the wool: the wool from the back and sides of the fleece is put in the Grade A basket; Grade B is from the lower parts of the fleece; and Grade C is the "rag tag" from the legs. Location unidentified here, but background dividers...

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image shows a male worker standing at a table piled with wool. The area is filled with baskets and bales of wool. Printed on reverse: "On arrival from Australia the raw wool was taken to the company's Cliffe Mills, Pudsey, for 'Sorting and Grading.'" Number one in a series of eight by Armley Mills, Leeds Museum of Science and Industry. Printed by E.T.W. Dennis & Sons, Ltd., Scarborough. This postcard was likely printed in 1982 as the Leeds Museum of Science and Industry...

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Black-and-white image shows rows of machines through which the jute is pulled and dropped into roving cans on the floor next to the machines. Carter's Series, No. 53. [Printed in Great Britain] [no earlier than 1902] 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image shows bins of raw jute material. Two workmen are in the foreground, one weighing the material on a scale. Carter's Series, No. 51. [Printed in Great Britain] [no earlier than 1902] 14 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, England. [no later than 1962] Black and white image shows large scale used to weigh wool. 9 x 14 cm.

Format: Postcard.