Box 12

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows male workers placing bales of cotton into bale breakers. Two of the workers are in the process of placing cotton into the breakers, and the third worker appears to be in the process of maneuvering a cotton-carrying cart. See Items 10 and 20, in this folder, for virtually identical images. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows male workers placing bales of cotton into bale breakers. Two of the workers are in the process of placing cotton into the breakers, and the third worker appears to be in the process of maneuvering a cotton-carrying cart. See Items 10 and 19, in this folder, for virtually identical images. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows two male workers in the picker room, surrounded by bales of cotton. One man is placing a bale into a bale breaker (in the background), and the other man appears to be seated atop a different bale (in the foreground). There are what appears to be more bale breakers in the background. See Items 9 and 22, in this folder, for virtually identical images. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows two male workers in the picker room, surrounded by bales of cotton. One man is placing a bale into a bale breaker (in the background), and the other man appears to be seated atop a different bale (in the foreground). There are what appears to be more bale breakers in the background. See Items 9 and 21, in this folder, for virtually identical images. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. 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...

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows mound of clean cotton next to a pile of dirt and waste that had been removed during the picking process. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows a sliver ("rope of fibers") of cotton being formed from a picker lap ("compressed sheet of cotton . rolled under pressure into a cylindrical package") by a revolving flat card (a machine that spins the picker lap to separate fibers into "individual relationship[s]"). The individual strands of cotton look like a web as they are pulled from the picker lap, but then come together to form what looks like a solid cotton rope. See Item 6, in this...

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Gelatin silver print. Black and white image shows many carded cotton slivers (cotton "ropes" that have gone through a carding machine) standing in roving cans, which are about three feet high. The cotton card delivers the slivers into the roving cans, which should more accurately be termed sliver cans. See Item 3, in this folder, for an image of a female worker standing amidst all these cans. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a female worker standing among many roving cans containing carded cotton slivers (cotton "ropes" that have gone through a carding machine). The card delivers the sliver into the cans, which are about three feet high and should more accurately be termed sliver cans. See Item 2, in this folder, for an image of these slivers without the worker. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1918. Black and white image shows a segment of coiled cotton sliver ("rope of fibers"). The card delivers the sliver into a roving can, which helps form the cylindrical shape seen here. 18 x 9 cm. Copy A.

Format: Stereoptic print.