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"Hell's Half Acre," a row of disreputable houses at the edge of the mi...

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Little spinner in Mollahan Cotton Mills, Newberry, S.C. Many others as...

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Cotton shed, Memphis Warehouse Co., Memphis, Tenn.

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Cannelton Cotton Mill, Worker's Housing Type A, Fourth Street, Cannelt...

Survey number: HAER IN-1-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75000011

Spooler tenders - 16 years. Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location: Adams, ...

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Washington Cotton Mill, on Mill Creek near State Highway 212, Washingt...

Significance: This was the largest factory west of the Mississippi when built, significant during the period of colonization of the southwestern part of the state. Unprocessed Field note material exists for th... More

Cotton Hill Station Bridge, Spanning New River at State Route 16, Cott...

Significance: The Cotton Hill Station Bridge is one of two bridges, located in Fayette County, crossing the vast New River. Its construction is a representation of the influence that local and statewide Good R... More

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Worker's Housing Type B, Fifth Street, Cannelto...

Survey number: HAER IN-1-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75000011

Old Cotton Mill, Cocalico, Lancaster County, PA

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Mississippi cotton gin at Dahomey. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

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45-47 Union Avenue (Cotton Brokerage House), Memphis, Shelby County, T...

Significance: An excellent example of the early cotton brokerage houses of Memphis' Cotton Row, this building retains much of its exterior and interior character including its stairhall and skylighted carding r... More

Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm o...

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Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm o...

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Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Worker's House, S.C. Route 215, Buffalo, ...

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Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Worker's House, S.C. Route 215, Buffalo, ...

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Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Worker's House, S.C. Route 215, Buffalo, ...

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Salem Manufacturing Company, Arista Cotton Mill, Brookstown & Marshall...

Significance: The Arista Mill complex is the oldest physical reminder of three forgotten elements in the history of Winston-Salem: Although the development and reputation of this city has been dominated by toba... More

[Spooler Tender - 15 years Berkshire Cotton Mills.] Location: [Adams,...

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Children of Mexican cotton laborers. Casa Grande, Arizona

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Dovey Kirkpatrick, 5 years old, picks 15 pounds of cotton a day (avera...

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Sulak family, frugal Bohemian farmers own an eighty acre farm near Wes...

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Arlington Place, 331 Cotton Avenue, Southwest, Birmingham, Jefferson C...

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Glencoe Cotton Mills, State Routes 1598 & 1600, Glencoe, Alamance Coun...

Significance: Glencoe developed at the time when the shift from water to steam power was seriously considered by cotton mill builders in Alamance County. Glencoe's existent mill houses, original mill buildings... More

Glencoe Cotton Mills, State Routes 1598 & 1600, Glencoe, Alamance Coun...

Significance: Glencoe developed at the time when the shift from water to steam power was seriously considered by cotton mill builders in Alamance County. Glencoe's existent mill houses, original mill buildings... More

Young doffers in Elk Cotton Mills. Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee.

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Picking cotton near Montgomery, Alabama - stereocsopic card

Stereograph shows African Americans, possibly slaves, working in a cotton field. Attributed to Lakin based on image published in Stereo World, March/April 2012, p. 7 Gift; G.W. Richmond; Nov. 1927 (DLC/PP-1927:47158)

Cotton chopping on Mississippi Delta land near Clarksdale, Mississippi

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Bamberg Cotton Mill, Main Street, Bamberg, Bamberg County, SC

Significance: This mill contained the largest collection of late 19th and early 20th century textile machinery in active production in the state until it closed in 1986. It was originally planned to house a ca... More

Bamberg Cotton Mill, Main Street, Bamberg, Bamberg County, SC

Significance: This mill contained the largest collection of late 19th and early 20th century textile machinery in active production in the state until it closed in 1986. It was originally planned to house a ca... More

One of the youngsters working in Lancaster Cotton Mills. S.C. Locatio...

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Name: Mule-spinning room in Chace Cotton Mill, Raoul Julien, "a back-r...

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Flashlight photos of 5 boys who work in Augusta (Ga.) cotton mill. Sup...

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Letter from Barthelemi Tardiveau to St. John de Crevecoeur, 2nd

Selma Cotton Mill, 218 Morgan Avenue, Selma, Dallas County, AL

Significance: The Selma Cotton Mill remains as one of the best surviving examples of a cotton mill using the Charles A.M. Praray building method, which was patented in 1894. The mill was constructed in two phas... More

Blue Spring Cotton Mill, Route 20, Oxford, Calhoun County, AL

Significance: Blue Spring Cotton Mill was constructed in 1885 and produced 4 x 4 cotton sheeting, along with other products. Survey number: HAER AL-189 Building/structure dates: 1999 Demolished Building/stru... More

Blue Spring Cotton Mill, Route 20, Oxford, Calhoun County, AL

Significance: Blue Spring Cotton Mill was constructed in 1885 and produced 4 x 4 cotton sheeting, along with other products. Survey number: HAER AL-189 Building/structure dates: 1999 Demolished Building/stru... More

Blue Spring Cotton Mill, Route 20, Oxford, Calhoun County, AL

Significance: Blue Spring Cotton Mill was constructed in 1885 and produced 4 x 4 cotton sheeting, along with other products. Survey number: HAER AL-189 Building/structure dates: 1999 Demolished Building/stru... More

All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and ...

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"Renters." Itinerant Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so an...

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Mexican children playing in ditch which runs through company cotton ca...

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Tupelo (Miss) Cotton Mill and Village. Conditions rather good. Locati...

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Father taking it easy at home while his two girls work in the cotton m...

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Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

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A doffer boy in Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Ga. Location: Augusta, Ge...

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Sharecropper's cabin, cotton and corn, near Jackson, Mississippi

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A little spinner in Globe Cotton Mill. Augusta, Ga. The overseer admit...

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Noon hour at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. The tiny spinner pushi...

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Jo Bodeon. A "back-roper" in mule room. Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington,...

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Cotton sharecropper family. Macon County, Georgia

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Jewel and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of co...

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General View of #2 Spinning Room in Indian Orchard Cotton Mill, Indian...

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A couple of dinner-toters at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virgini...

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Pearle Cotton Mill & Dam, Elbert County Road 245, Elberton, Elbert Cou...

Significance: The Pearle Cotton Mill is an industrial archeological site that once served as the focus of a mill village known as Beverly, Georgia. The factory was built in 1895 by Thomas M. Swift of Elberton,... More

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Front & Fourth Streets, Cannelton, Perry County...

Significance: The Cennelton (later Indiana) Cotton Mill is both a monumental example of industrial architecture and evidence of a major attempt to industrialize southern Indian. With its superb masonry constru... More

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Front & Fourth Streets, Cannelton, Perry County...

Significance: The Cennelton (later Indiana) Cotton Mill is both a monumental example of industrial architecture and evidence of a major attempt to industrialize southern Indian. With its superb masonry constru... More

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Front & Fourth Streets, Cannelton, Perry County...

Significance: The Cennelton (later Indiana) Cotton Mill is both a monumental example of industrial architecture and evidence of a major attempt to industrialize southern Indian. With its superb masonry constru... More

Magnolia Plantation, Cotton Gins & Presses, LA Route 119, Natchitoches...

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Magnolia Plantation, Cotton Gins & Presses, LA Route 119, Natchitoches...

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Magnolia Plantation, Cotton Gins & Presses, LA Route 119, Natchitoches...

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Magnolia Plantation, Cotton Gins & Presses, LA Route 119, Natchitoches...

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Magnolia Plantation, Cotton Gins & Presses, LA Route 119, Natchitoches...

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Manchester Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company, Southern Bank of Jam...

Significance: The Manchester Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company was among the first textile mills to operate in the Richmond area and represented one of the early efforts to diversify the predominately agr... More

Manchester Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company, Southern Bank of Jam...

Significance: The Manchester Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company was among the first textile mills to operate in the Richmond area and represented one of the early efforts to diversify the predominately agr... More

Manchester Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company, Southern Bank of Jam...

Significance: The Manchester Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company was among the first textile mills to operate in the Richmond area and represented one of the early efforts to diversify the predominately agr... More

[Yorktown, Virginia Confederate fortifications reinforced with bales o...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...

Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...

Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...

Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...

Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...

Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...

Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...

Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...

Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...

Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More

Boott Cotton Mills, John Street at Merrimack River, Lowell, Middlesex ...

Significance: Boott Cotton Mills is one of the oldest surviving large-scale textile mill complexes in the United States. Built as an original, and integral, part of the City of Lowell, the Boott Cotton Mills h... More

Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...

Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More

Cotton machinery - Victorian era public domain image

Photograph shows large cotton machine on display. Salted paper photoprint by Claude-Marie Ferrier or Hugh Owen. Illus. in: Reports by the Juries, London, Spicer Brothers, 1852, v. 2, frontis.

Cotton press - Public domain drawing

Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. C-138. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1065 verso) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. G. Tashkend. Iarmarochnyia postroiki

Photograph shows bales of cotton in front of a long, low building. In the background, buildings for a trade fair. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 110.

Scenes in cotton land: The cotton press

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 33, no. 836 (1871 Oct. 7), p. 61. Reference copy may be in LOT 4397-K. Caption card tracings: Cot... More

Queretero, the Hercules Cotton Mill - photo by William Henry Jackson

Photograph shows cotton mill and surrounding buildings in Quéretero, Mexico, with mountains in the background. In album: Mexico, v. 2. No. 08522. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of the Detr... More

Richland Cotton Plantation, Miss., mammoth plate negative

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Georgia Farmer, Griffin, GA. 19th century, Library of Congress collect...

Photograph shows farmer standing next to an oxen-driven wagon loaded with cotton bales. Deane & Amoss.

Cotton at railway terminus, Savannah, Ga.

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Marketing cotton, street scene in Greenwood, S.C.

Photograph shows crowded street filled with horse-drawn wagons carrying cotton bales. Greenwood Drug Co.

Ceiba or silk cotton tree, Nassau, Bahama Islands

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Army plane and Cotton Duster - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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[Cotton plantation activities] - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

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Sorting cotton - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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Khlopok. V Botanicheskom sadu v Sukhumi︠e︡

Man standing next to cotton plants. Public domain scan of drawing, 20th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Cotton field, probably Golodonaia Steppe or Mugan Steppe]

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[Cotton textile mill interior, probably in Tashkent]

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"Picking cotton in the sunny south, Georgia, U.S.A."

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A Georgia cotton field - A group of people picking cotton in a field

African Americans picking. Photo copyrighted by Marcus L. Brow, Decatur, Ga. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Women and children, Aiken, S.C.

Photograph shows African American women, children, and men cotton pickers at work. Copyright 1907 by O. Newton Cripps, Aiken, S.C.

A spinner in Clyde Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C. Location: Newton, North ...

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Interior of cotton mill. Location: Newton, North Carolina.

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W.P. Weld, Vice-Pres. of Cotton Congress

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Spoolers where the yarn is wound from bobbins onto spools, White Oak C...

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Mule-spinning room, Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. Edward Marcotte...

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