Box 8

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Black-and-white image of two male African American workers using presses and a cake former to extract cottonseed oil from cooked cottonseed cakes. The worker in the foreground can be seen using the cake former, and the worker in the background can be seen using the hydraulic press. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image of an African American male worker putting cloth-covered cottonseed cakes into the hydraulic press. Once all of the press shelves are filled, cottonseed oil is squeezed out of the cakes, runs down the side of the press, and flows through a trough to a settling tank. It takes about 20 minutes to fill the shelves of the press, extract oil, and empty the shelves for refilling. Note the boiler in the right background. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920....

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Black-and-white image of two African American males removing cottonseed cakes from a press and stripping the cloths off them. Cottonseed cakes are placed into the press to remove the oil. Cottonseed cakes were sold as stock feed, and when ground up, they became cottonseed meal. 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 depicts a large cotton yard filled with cotton bales. Some buildings in the background on the right. Dated on the card September 9, 1905. H. Hymes, Art Store, Savannah, Ga. [photographer?] Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No. 1010, "Savannah." Art Publishers to their Majesties the King and Queen. 13.75 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of the interior of a large cotton shed. The floor is covered in cotton bales. Several male workers can be seen standing and/or laying on the bales. A horse-drawn wagon is visible to the right of the shed. Location unknown. "Phostint" Card, made only by Detroit Publishing Co. ca. 1915-1924. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of red flatbed truck filled with stacks of cotton bales. Three male workers are standing in front of the truck, which is parked on the side of a tree-lined street. Published by Asheville Post Card Co., Asheville, N.C. Dated and postmarked March 1, 1950, Daytona Beach, Fla., but the card was probably manufactured before 1944. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image of two African American male workers, one standing on the ground and one on a platform, shoveling cotton seed into elevated doorways at a mill. Piles of cotton seed can be seen in the photo, both in doorways and on the ground. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1910. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Color image of a packet floating down the Mississippi River, piled high with cotton bales. Workers can be seen standing both on the top of the cotton bales and on a small platform on the lower part of the front of the boat. Printed on the reverse of the card: " 'Down upon the Mississippi.' The packets plying the Mississippi River measure 50 feet from keel to root of upper cabin; their average length is 250 feet, with a carrying capacity of a thousand tons. The main deck is occupied by...

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Color image of several large boats docked at a levee. The land near the dock has many cotton bales, as well as various other sacks. Workers are seen standing and sitting on and near the cotton bales and boats. Photograph courtesy Chamber of Commerce, Memphis, Tenn. Sold by Bluff City News Co., Memphis, Tenn. A "Colourpicture" Publication, Boston 15, Mass. ca. 1943-1945. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of numerous flatbed traincars on a track, loaded with bales of cotton. Male workers are standing and sitting on top of the bales. ca. 1907-1915. 14 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.