Box 8

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Color image of a cotton compress, shed and large yard filled with cotton bales. A pile of wooden planks can be seen at the front of the yard, and workers are riding horse-drawn wagons loaded with cotton bales. Several other workers can be seen walking among the rows of bales. Published by International Post Card Co., New York. Made in Germany. Postmarked October 28, 1907 in Birmingham, Ala. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image of a cotton compress powered by a horse. The large screw in the center of the press is used to compress the cotton. A horse is tied to one of the large wooden beams, or booms, of the compress, and as the horse moves in a circle, the screw rotates to compress the cotton. An African American man stands at the center of the compress with a basket of cotton at his feet; he may be feeding cotton into the press. A white man dressed in a suit jacket and wearing a cap looks on...

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Color image of a large cotton compress. A shed and large yard filled with cotton bales surround it. Many city buildings are visible in the distant background, and train cars labeled St. Louis & San Francisco are in the foreground. Postmarked October 16, 1909 in Oklahoma City. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image image of two workers standing in front of a cotton compress, which is full of cotton. A bale of cotton is visible on a dolly in the left foreground, and bits of cotton are scattered around the floor. Detroit Publishing Co. Postmarked March 16, 1916 in Dallas, Tex. See Item 9, in this folder, for a black-and-white image of this view and Item 10, in this folder, for this same image bya different publisher. 8.75 x 14 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of African American woman holding a large basket filled with cotton on her head. The ground is covered in cotton. She stands in front of a building, and a person can be seen standing in the doorway, holding cotton. Postmarked August 27, 1909 in Wichita Falls, Texas. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image depicts large field of frames holding drying cotton. Bags of cotton and piles of raw cotton in foreground; numerous African American workers visible in foreground. [U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo?] "Brown Studio, Greenville, Miss." imprinted in lower left corner. ca. 1926-1939. 13.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of a huge pile of cotton seed sacks behind a fence that is dwarfed by the pile. A man stands on the top of the pile. Buildings can be glimpsed in the background. Published by The Acmegraph Co., Chicago. ca. 1907-1915. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image of two docked boats. Cotton bales are piled on the ground in front of the docks. Empty horse-drawn wagons and several men are visible in the foreground of the image. "New Orleans and Vicinity" stamped on one side of the stereocard, one of a series of New Orleans-area images done by Blessing. S. T. Blessing, Publisher, 87 Canal St., N.O., La. ca. 1875. 17.75 x 10 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image of two male workers in a field, holding a basket of cotton on a pole and using a hand-held scale to weigh it. Several workers look on. The two men on the left taking notes appear to be white, everyone else is African American. A man stands and watches from a wagon filled with baskets of cotton. Stenciled on the wagon is "Made for W. A. Potts Newnan, Ga." Pay for picking the cotton was about one half cent per pound. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, copyright,...

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image of an African American male operating a cotton gin inside of a brick building. Prior to the invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, cotton was a difficult crop to work with and thus was not very popular in the United States. After the invention of the cotton gin, however, cotton became much easier to work with and more profitable, and many southern planters reversed their position on slavery, wanting more slaves to work with their cotton crops. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone...