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African American Tenant Farmers Picking Cotton

Date: 1900
Description: Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand.
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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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Picking Cotton in Field

Date: 
Description: African American workers picking cotton in a cotton field. Possibly in Mississippi.
Book or Pamphlet

Picking Cotton

Date: 06 1931
Description: African Americans picking cotton on a large plantation in Virginia.
Photograph

Picking Cotton

Date: 
Description: Agricultural workers harvesting cotton, location unknown. Some of the workers are using horse-drawn plows. Two small buildings are in the distance. Caption...
Photograph

Picking Cotton

Date: 1915
Description: Men, women, and children picking cotton in a field.
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Cotton Presentation

Date: 1915
Description: View from back of classroom of Dr. W.B. Hinds pointing at a graph as he delivers an agricultural lecture on cotton to students seated at North Alabama Bapt...
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McCormick-Deering Cotton Harvester

Date: 1944
Description: Dorothy Hutchison operating a McCormick-Deering H-10-H cotton picker in a field. Stencils and/or decals are on the machine.
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Three Women Preparing Cotton

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from Japan and South Korea, Carrie describes the process of preparing cotton to be used for yarn or clothing. This image shows three women w...

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