Box 12

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a roughly 500 pound bale of cotton being held upright by a wooden support. The bale is wrapped in burlap, but the cotton is spilling out of some rips in the covering. See Item 8, in this folder, for a virtually identical image. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a male worker standing by a bale of raw cotton, which weighs about 500 pounds. The bale is wrapped in burlap, but the cotton is spilling out of some rips in the covering. See also Item 9, in this folder, for another image of this worker. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a large mound of cotton that was previously contained in a bale. The mound still retains a rough cubic shape. Barely visible in the background is a bale still in its burlap covering. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents

Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a propped up bale of raw cotton, which weighs about 500 pounds. The bale is wrapped in burlap, but the cotton is spilling out of some rips in the covering. See Item 5, in this folder, for a virtually identical image. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a male worker using a dolly cart to move a bale of raw cotton, weighing roughly 500 pounds. The bale is wrapped in burlap, but the cotton is spilling out of some rips in the covering. See also Item 6, in this folder, for another image of this worker. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows multiple bales of cotton that have been opened, with the burlap covering removed, lying next to or stacked on another. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a pile of raw cotton. The cotton has yet to be cleaned, as can be seen by the bits of dirt, leaves, etc. still embedded in the cotton. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print. ca. 1916. Black and white image shows a male worker maneuvering two picker lap ("sheet[s] of . fiber . rolled under pressure into a cylindrical package") encumbered trolleys into a carding room. There is another male worker far in the background of the imagethe carding roomand he appears to be monitoring or operating the machines within. A clock on the wall and sunlight through a window reveals that it was roughly 10:55 a.m. when the picture was taken. 18 x 9 cm....

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print. ca. 1916. Black and white image shows two male workers examining cotton held in their hands. The two men (wearing collared shirts, vests, and ties--the man in the foreground also wears a loose jacket over his clothes) are standing in an aisle between two rows of tables, and it is from the tables that the men grab a sample of cotton to examine from bundles of cotton. On top of most bundles of cotton lies a sheet of paper that probably has information regarding the...

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print. ca. 1916. Black and white image shows a male worker in the process of measuring the length of cotton fibers (staple) before assigning the cotton to a group based on the measurement (classing). In front and behind him are tables covered with cotton that is to be inspected or already has been. The measurements are likely written on the man's clipboard. See Item 5, in this folder, for a nearly duplicate view of this image, and Item 2, in this folder, for another view of...