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Farmer Poses with Watermelon aboard Cotton Picker
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Farm worker, Frank White, stops harvesting to pose with watermelon found among the cotton crop. The field, part of the O'Neill Ranch located in Helm, California, was formerly used for watermelons. Mr. White is sitting in a McCormick-Deering cotton harvester.
1944
International Harvester Company
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Man Operating M-12-H Cotton Picker
1948
Man harvesting cotton with a McCormick-Deering M-12-H cotton picker.
Experimental Cotton Picker Mounted on a Farmall B Tractor
1944
Field test of an experimental International Harvester cotton picker mounted on a Farmall B tractor. The caption reads "Experimental IH low-drum 1-row Farmall mounted cotton picker with clearing and...
214 Cotton Picker
1959
Man operating a McCormick 214 2-row, low draw cotton picker in a cotton field.
M-11-H Cotton Picker
1947
Man operating a McCormick-Deering M-11-H cotton picker in a cotton field.
Man Operating International Harvester Cotton Picker
1942
African American man dumping a load of cotton from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon.
