Picture postcards and photographs
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A set of reproductions of picture postcards and photographs showing cotton picking and harvesting, mostly in the American South. Scenes include hand-picking in fields, baskets and piles of picked cotton, bales, drying cotton, and a comparison of picking by hand with a mechanical picker. Captions name places such as Tunica, Mississippi; Humboldt, Tennessee; Beaumont, Texas; Shawnee, Oklahoma; Fresno County, California; Arizona; Memphis; New Orleans; and Louisiana. One image is of women harvesting in China in 1962.
- Type
- Ephemera
- Date
- c. 1900-1962
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 15
- Archive notes
- Last updated August 1, 2003
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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