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Picking Cotton in Field
African American workers picking cotton in a cotton field. Possibly in Mississippi.
African American Tenant Farmers Picking Cotton
1900
Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand.
Mechanical Cotton Picker
1942
African American field worker testing an experimental International Harvester cotton picker. Original caption reads: "A close-up front view of the Harvester cotton picker showing how the row of cot...
Picking Cotton
Agricultural workers harvesting cotton, location unknown. Some of the workers are using horse-drawn plows. Two small buildings are in the distance. Caption reads: "Cotton Picking."
