Cotton Gin Collection

Mississippi cotton gin at Dahomey, c1898. Creator: Unknown
Mississippi cotton gin at Dahomey, c1898

Mississippi cotton gin at Dahomey, 1899. Creator: Unknown
Mississippi cotton gin at Dahomey, 1899. Photograph shows African American workers pressing cotton into bales as an overseer watches

Cotton gin at Dahomey, between 1890 and 1906. Creator: Unknown
Cotton gin at Dahomey, between 1890 and 1906

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

The cotton gin near Robstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The cotton gin near Robstown, Texas

Cotton gin, Robstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton gin. Robstown, Texas

Tulare cooperative cotton gin, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tulare cooperative cotton gin, Tulare County, California. There are three such cooperatives in the southern California cotton industry

Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, probably... between 1905-1915
Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, probably in Tashkent, between 1905 and 1915. Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944)

Cotton gin (?), in interior of mill, probably in Tashkent, between 1905 and 1915. Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944)

The International Exhibition - cotton manufacture: machinery of Platt Brothers, Oldham, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition - cotton manufacture: machinery of Platt Brothers, Oldham, 1862. Fig. 1 the Macarthy Gin; Fig. 4

Tin wall of the cotton gin building, Vicinity of Moundville, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Walker Evans
Tin wall of the cotton gin building. Vicinity of Moundville, Alabama

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

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

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

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

Wagonload of cotton near the gin. Vicinity of Moundville, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Walker Evans
Wagonload of cotton near the gin. Vicinity of Moundville, Alabama

At the cotton gin, Cotton gin and wagons, Hale County, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Walker Evans
At the cotton gin. Cotton gin and wagons. Hale County, Alabama

Slave labour on a cotton plantation in the southern states of America, 1860. Putting cotton bolls through a whipping press before putting the cotton through a saw gin

Eli Whitneys (1765-1825) saw-gin for cleaning cotton, 1865. Whitneys cotton gin, patented in 1794, pioneered the mass production of cotton

Cross-section of Eli Whitneys (1765-1825) saw-gin for cleaning cotton, 1865. Seeds can be seen ejected (left), while cotton fibres are passing on the right

Saw gin for cleaning cotton being operated by barefoot black labourer, southern USA, 1865. An Eagle gin, an improved form of the cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney (1765-1825) in 1794

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