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.