Cotton Screw Press
A cotton screw press somewhere in Charlotte. Physical Description: 3x5 color Publisher: Washington News Company
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Agriculture North Carolina Mecklenburg County
Loading Cotton onto Rail Cars
Shows workers trucking cotton on the Old City Platform. Physical Description: 3x5 black and white Publisher: Stone and Barringer Publishers
Cotton gin
Picture shows workers hauling cotton to the gin. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown
Cotton machines
Cotton gin house with the cotton screw/press on the right. A typical gin house like this produced three bales of cotton a day. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown
Cotton Machine
Cotton gin house with the cotton screw/press on the right. A typical gin house like this produced three bales of cotton a day. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown
Agricultural workers
Workers going home after a day in the cotton fields. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown
Sharecropper's home
Photograph of a typical sharecropper or tenant farmer's home in Mecklenburg County Physical Description: Original from Tompkins Collection4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown
Cotton workers
Cotton pickers waiting to load the wagons. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown
Cotton machinery
Machines like this were used for picking cotton. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown
Cotton Workers
Cotton worker driving cotton to gin in a mule-drawn wagon. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown