A single engraved illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, April 8, 1865, showing a cotton press building near Flat Rock, South Carolina, after its destruction by Union forces under General Sherman during the American Civil War. The image is based on a sketch by the newspaper's special artist and shows a gabled building with a cupola and open sheds, with a large bare tree at left. The caption is the only text.

A single-page political cartoon from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, January 1862, during the American Civil War. It shows Jonathan (the Northern personification) standing on a stack of cotton bales beside a notice of 3,650 bales of cotton arriving from Beaufort aboard the Vanderbilt, inviting John Bull to collect them as per invoice. The caption presents the captured cotton as a harbor defence, alluding to Britain's dependence on Southern cotton and the Union capture of Beaufort, South Carolina.

A single-page engraved illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1871, showing a cotton gin in operation inside a barn-like building. A man in a wide-brimmed hat feeds raw cotton to the gin's roller while a large hand-cranked flywheel drives the machinery, and a woman is also shown at work. The only text is the caption referring readers to page 55 for the accompanying article.

A single wood-engraved illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 7 October 1871, titled 'Scenes in Cotton Land.—The Cotton-Press.' It shows a plantation cotton press, a tall gabled wooden structure with workers loading cotton into the press box, with a mule and rider nearby. The caption refers readers to page 55 for the accompanying text, which is not included.

A single page from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (April 26, 1862) with an engraved illustration and short commentary on shipping rosin, cotton and turpentine owned by Union citizens from Fernandina, Florida, to New York during the Civil War. The sketch is by special artist Mr. Crane and shows a locomotive and cars loaded with bales and cargo, with workers and onlookers on a wharf. The text explains that the Federal government restored commerce to loyal citizens in regained ports.

A short illustrated newspaper article from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (1862) describing the weighing and loading of Indian cotton at Bombay for shipment to England during the American Civil War blockade. It discusses the shift of English demand to Indian sources, the main commercial cotton types, transport by pack-bullock and railway, bale size and compression, and porterage by Hamals. An engraving shows bales being weighed on a large hanging scale in the customhouse yard.