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Color image shows a cotton gin in Lawton, Okla., with a two short chimneys on the main building and a tall chimney on the extension to the left. Bales of cotton are lined up along the front walls. Some workers are also in view. ca. 1907-1915. 13.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image shows rows of cotton bales stacked next to a wooden building with a chimney, the cotton gin. Two workmen are carrying baskets of cotton, probably heading for the gin. No location given. ca. 1907-1915. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image shows two wooden buildings. On the left, a bale of cotton is being moved into or out of a horse-drawn cart. In the center is a scale for weighing the cotton; two a man stands in front of it with a huge bag of cotton. On the right, a mule-drawn cart is loaded with giant cotton bales. No location given. Milwaukee, Wis.: E.C. Kropp Co., Publ., ca. 1902-1907. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image shows horse-drawn carts loaded with cotton waiting for their turn at the gin entry. Workmen are in vew at the building dock in background and also alongside the waiting carts. Smaller, residential buildings are in the background on the left. No location given. Published by The Chessler Co., Baltimore, Md. ca. 1915-1930. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image depicts a drawing or print of an African American man raking raw cotton through the gin machine. Additional details about cotton gins, the process, and inventor Eli Whitney is provided on reverse side. "This View is Non-Stereoscopic" is printed at the bottom of the stereograph. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Black- and-white image depicts workmen standing by a row of ginning machines. The gins remove the twigs, leaves, etc., separate the seed from the cotton, and deposit the cotton on the ginning floor to be baled. 10,000,000 commercial bales of cotton have been ginned annually, and one-quarter of the entire output each year was baled in Texas. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.75 cm. See Item 129, in this folder, for the same title and information on the reverse...

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Color image depicts two rows of equipment with a space between. Workmen are at machines on both sides and in the center other workmen appear to be adding cotton to a bag. Message on front includes: "This gives about as good an idea of a cotton gin as one can get from a picture only the press is left out." Adolph Selige Pub. Co., St. Louis--Leipzig. Postmarked Feb. 10, 1907 in Galveston, Tex., and Feb. 13, 1907 in Utica, N.Y. 13.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image shows row of four ginning machines. A workman appears to be feeding cotton into a shute connected to a pipe at ceiling level; this is probably the suction pipe that brings the cotton into the mechanism of the gin. No location given. Published by T. P. & Co., N.Y. Postmarked Jan. 17, 1913 in Charlotte, N.C. 13.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Black- and-white image shows row of four ginning machines. One workman is tending to a machine. The picked cotton is removed from the loaded wagon by a suction pipe, which conveys it to the vacuum separator and cleaner, in order to remove all twigs, leaves and imjpurities. The waste is dumped into one place, the seeds blown into another, without danger of impairing their vitality, and the cotton is deposited on the ginning floor ready for baling. New York: Underwood and Underwood, ca....

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image shows complex of wooden buildings with a water tower and chimney. Horse-drawn carts filled with cotton wait in line by the loading dock. Printed on the card: "The above plant was able to handle one-half of the cotton crop of 1906. The total El Campo crop was 5,000 bales. (See Rice Mill in background.)" Card may have been used for promotion as a call-out at right top reads: "Write Gulf Coast Land and Investment Co., St. Louis, Mo., El Campo, Tex." ca. 1906-1907. 12.5 x 9...