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Farm Family on Bales of Cotton

Date: 1921
Description: A couple with two children sitting on a bale of cotton in a barnyard posing for a portrait.
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Family Posing around Farmhouse

Date: 1921
Description: View across field towards a family standing on the porch of a farmhouse while a man is standing in the adjacent field with a horse. In the background, clot...
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Photographer at Cotton Harvest

Date: 1921
Description: A cameraman films a man stooping to pick cotton while other people are looking on from the background.
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Boy on Bale of Cotton

Date: 1921
Description: A young boy seated on a bale of cotton in front of a farm building looks toward a man standing next to him.
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Cotton Bale on a Railroad Loading Dock

Date: 1921
Description: A cotton bale sits on a platform next to a train, possibly awaiting shipment.
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Lesser-Goldman Cotton Company

Date: 1921
Description: Horse-drawn wagons and bales of cotton line up in the street along the curb near the Lesser-Goldman Cotton Co. Building.
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How the Cotton Picker Works

Date: 1948
Description: Cutaway left side profile view illustration of cotton picker on Farmall M tractor, including the silhouette of a man sitting at the controls. Caption reads...
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Cotton Picker on Farmall H Tractor Cutaway

Date: 1946
Description: Cutaway left side profile view illustration of cotton picker on Farmall M tractor, including the silhouette of a man sitting at the controls. Writing on th...
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HM-110-L Cotton Picker on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1946
Description: HM-110-L cotton picker attached to a Farmall H tractor in a cotton field. A man is sitting at the wheel of the tractor.
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Cotton Duster

Date: 07 24 1929
Description: A man spraying a cotton crop with a Farmall Regular tractor and a McCormick-Deering cotton duster owned by J.R. Clark of Dallas, Texas.
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Cotton Picker on Display at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 06 03 1933
Description: Farmall tractor and mounted experimental cotton-picker on display in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair. The c...
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New Mechanical Cotton Picker

Date: 1942
Description: Two cotton pickers, the first driven by Fowler McCormick, president of the International Harvester Company, drive through a field on the Hopson Planting Co...
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Hopson Plantation

Date: 1942
Description: Farm buildings stand in the distance at the Hopson Planting Company's plantation.
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Cotton Storage Bin

Date: 1942
Description: Piles of cotton fill a storage bin at the Hopson Planting Company plantation.
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Hopson Plantation

Date: 1942
Description: Several buildings on the Hopson Planting Company's plantation.
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Picker Drum, Doffers, and Fingers

Date: 11 15 1930
Description: Engineering photograph of an experimental cotton picker and cleaner showing the picker drum, doffers, and fingers.
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Cotton Picker

Date: 06 28 1944
Description: Engineering photograph of a man behind the wheel of a "1944 season" cotton picker mounted on a Farmall B tractor. There is a large canvas behind the cotton...
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Cotton Picker Mechanism

Date: 06 28 1944
Description: Engineering photograph of a portion of a cotton picker mounted on a Farmall B tractor.
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Cotton Picker Shipment

Date: 08 08 1944
Description: A shipment of tractor-mounted cotton pickers loaded on railroad flat cars near a factory(?) building.
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Cotton Picker Parts

Date: 01 13 1937
Description: Engineering photograph of metal parts lined up to illustrate "general changes in (the) past several years" during the development of the cotton picker.

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