Bale Collection

Cotton from India: a cotton convoy - night encampment under a banyan-tree, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Cotton from India: a cotton convoy proceeding from Rewah towards the Ganges - night encampment under a banyan-tree, 1862. '...a small convoy of solid wooden-wheeled carts, pad bullocks

Cotton from India: a cotton fleet descending the Ganges - casting off from Mirzapore, 1862. Creator: Smyth
Cotton from India: a cotton fleet descending the Ganges - casting off from Mirzapore early in the morning, 1862. Boats en route to '...Calcutta, for the purpose of shipping the cotton to Europe

The Cotton Famine: making up parcels of clothing at the industrial institution, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: making up parcels of clothing at the industrial institution, Manchester, 1862. 'Our Artist has made a sketch of that portion of the building where the bales are received in

The War in America: the Confederates quitting Brownsville, Texas..., 1864. Creator: Unknown
The War in America: the Confederates quitting Brownsville, Texas, on hearing of the approach of Federal transports, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. A. G. Wedge

Baling machine for hay, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Baling machine for hay, 1915.

The Child of Horisaka Sahei Tied to a Rice Bale, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Child of Horisaka Sahei Tied to a Rice Bale, 1875. From The Postal News, no. 508

Loading cotton into a steamer, Savannah, Ga. c1904. Creator: Unknown
Loading cotton into a steamer, Savannah, Ga. c1904

Cotton docks, Savannah, Ga. c1907. Creator: Unknown
Cotton docks, Savannah, Ga. c1907

Tobacco market, Louisville, Ky. A, c1906. Creator: Unknown
Tobacco market, Louisville, Ky. A, c1906

Trimming bales of hay, 1660-1684. Creator: Gaspar Netscher
Trimming bales of hay, 1660-1684. Attributed to Caspar Netscher

Atlantic Cotton Compress Company, Pensacola, Fla. between 1900 and 1906. Creator: Unknown
Atlantic Cotton Compress Company, Pensacola, Fla. between 1900 and 1906

Sorting cotton, between 1900 and 1910. Creator: Unknown
Sorting cotton, between 1900 and 1910

Pressing cotton into bales on a southern plantation, 1882. Creator: Unknown
Pressing cotton into bales on a southern plantation, 1882

Weighing bales of cotton, 1882. Creator: Unknown
Weighing bales of cotton, 1882

Cotton gin, 1882. Creators: Unknown, Vizetelly & Company. Cotton gin, 1882. Creators: Unknown, Vizetelly & Company
Cotton gin, 1882

Kaweah Delta Cooperative cotton gin and yard, Tulare County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Kaweah Delta Cooperative cotton gin and yard. Tulare County, California. There are three such cooperatives in the southern cotton industry

Bales of cotton on gin platform, Robstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Bales of cotton on gin platform. Robstown, Texas

Cotton bales on gin platform, Robstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton bales on gin platform. Robstown, Texas

The Great Wool-Floor at the London Docks, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Wool-Floor at the London Docks, 1850. The vastly increasing importance of the Colonial wool trade...has induced the directors of the London Dock Company to enlarge...the warehouse...and to

Cotton textile mill interior, probably in Tashkent, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Cotton textile mill interior, probably in Tashkent, between 1905 and 1915. Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944)

Cotton bales lying at the Bombay terminus of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Cotton bales lying at the Bombay terminus of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway ready for shipment to England, 1862. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. M'Combie and Wright

The Civil War in America: cottonburners, from a sketch by our special artist, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Civil War in America: cottonburners in the neighbourhood of Memphis surprised by Federal scouts - from a sketch by our special artist, 1862

Weighing cotton at Bombay for the English market, 1862. Creator: Joseph Austin Benwell
Weighing cotton at Bombay for the English market, 1862. Here...the bales are landed from Surat, Baroche, Cambay, and other parts of Guzerat, Kuttyawa

Cotton-Store and Coolies, Bombay; Notes on Bombay and the Malabar Coast, 1875. Creator: C. B. Low
Cotton-Store and Coolies, Bombay; Notes on Bombay and the Malabar Coast, 1875. [Workers at a cotton warehouse in what is now Mumbai, India]. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates

Cotton Store, Bombay; Bombay and the Malabar Coast, 1875. Creator: C. B. Low
Cotton Store, Bombay; Bombay and the Malabar Coast, 1875. [Workers at a cotton warehouse in what is now Mumbai, India]. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates

Cotton from the bale is transported by belt to... making cotton bats, Laurel, Mississippi, 1939
Cotton from the bale is transported by belt to machine for making cotton bats. Weighing device is so sensitive that it directs the cotton from one machine to another. Laurel, Mississippi

Cotton from the bale is transported by belt... for making bats, Laurel, Mississippi, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton from the bale is transported by belt to machine for making cotton bats. Weighing device is so sensitive that it directs the cotton from one machine to another. Laurel, Mississippi

Hobo wakes up early in the morning from his bed alongside a corral, Imperial Valley, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hobo wakes up early in the morning from his bed alongside a corral. Imperial Valley, California

From the overpass approaching Fresno, between Tulare and Fresno, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Between Tulare and Fresno. From the overpass approaching Fresno, California. [Bales of cotton outside the Producers Cotton Oil Co. makers of cottonseed cake and meal for cattle and sheep]

Cotton gin and wagons, Vicinity of Moundville, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Walker Evans
Cotton gin and wagons. Vicinity of Moundville, Alabama

Cotton gin, Hale County, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Walker Evans
Cotton gin, Hale County, Alabama

Daikoku balancing rice bales, mallet, and rooster on his feet, Japan, 1825

Employment of Negroes in Agriculture, 1934. Creator: Earle Richardson
Employment of Negroes in Agriculture, 1934

The Longshoremens Noon, 1879. Creator: John George Brown
The Longshoremens Noon, 1879

The Merchant, from the Dance of Death, 1651. Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar
The Merchant, from the Dance of Death, 1651

Two sailors with a bale of merchandise, ca. 1662. Creator: Stefano della Bella
Two sailors with a bale of merchandise, ca. 1662

Tsukudajima in Musashi Province (Buyo Tsukudajima), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), ca. 1830-32

Loading cotton onto grain boats, River Nile, Cairo, Egypt, 1898. Baumwollhandler vor Kornschiffe am Nilufer bei Cairo. From " Rund um die Erde", by C. W. Allers

Warehousing in the City, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré
Warehousing in the City, 1872. Men and boys lifting bales and barrels at warehouse depot. From, " LONDON. A Pilgrimage" by Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold. [Grant and Co

Pickle Herring Street, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré
Pickle Herring Street, 1872. From, " LONDON. A Pilgrimage" by Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold. [Grant and Co. 72-78, Turnmill Street, E.C. 1872]

Porters at Work, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré
Porters at Work, 1872. Taking cargo at London Docks. From, " LONDON. A Pilgrimage" by Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold. [Grant and Co. 72-78, Turnmill Street, E.C. 1872]

Wool for Sale in a Melbourne Showroom, 1923. Creator: Unknown
Wool for Sale in a Melbourne Showroom, 1923. From " Australia, New Zealand and Oceania in Pictures", by H. Clive Barnard, M.A. Blitt. [A. & C. Black, Limited, London, 1923]

Flag bearer from the canton of Bale, c. 1520. Color engraving from 1943, published by Editions Fraumunster, Zurich

Hungerford Pier and Footbridge, c1850. Passengers disembarking from steamboats tied up in mid-stream at Hungerford Pier and ascending by stairs to footbridge level

Major Blake Bale by the pits at Brooklands, Surrey, c1930s(?). Artist: Bill Brunell
Place: Brooklands. Date: Major Blake Bale

Tallying wool bales at London Docks, c1900 (1901). From Living London, Vol. 1, edited by George R. Sims. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1901]

Packing the bales of khaki for despatch to the Government, c1914. Khaki manufacture for soldiers uniforms during World War I. From The Manchester Guardian: History of the War, Vol. II.-1914-15. 1915

Cotton wharves, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, early 20th century. Cotton bales on the Elder Dempster Co SS Wharf in New Orleans

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