Cotton Plantation Collection

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

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

Migratory cotton picker with her baby, 1939. Creator: Unknown
Migratory cotton picker with her baby, 1939

Migratory cotton workers, 1939. Creator: Unknown
Migratory cotton workers, 1939

Cotton field, Georgia, 1911. Creator: Unknown
Cotton field, Georgia, 1911

Southern slaves at their daily toil, 1925. Creator: Unknown
Southern slaves at their daily toil, 1925

Picking and weighing cotton, 1872. Creator: Unknown
Picking and weighing cotton, 1872

Picking cotton on a southern plantation, 1882. Creator: Unknown
Picking cotton on a southern plantation, 1882

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

Gathering cotton in Georgia, 1882. Creator: Unknown
Gathering cotton in Georgia, 1882

The Black Wax area of Texas, near Georgetown, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The Black Wax area of Texas is the outstanding cotton producing section of the western cotton belt. Near Georgetown, Texas

Along U.S. Highway 99, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Along U.S. Highway 99. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. ['Cotton Pickers Wanted']

Cultivating cotton cooperatively at Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cultivating cotton cooperatively at Lake Dick, Arkansas

Farmers with mule teams and cultivators, Lake Dick project, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmers with mule teams and cultivators. Lake Dick project, Arkansas

Farmers about to begin cooperative cultivation of cotton at Lake Dick project, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmers about to begin cooperative cultivation of cotton at Lake Dick project, Arkansas

Cultivating cotton cooperatively at Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cultivating cotton cooperatively at Lake Dick, Arkansas

Cultivating cotton at Lake Dick project, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cultivating cotton at Lake Dick project, Arkansas

Cultivating cotton at Lake Dick project, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cultivating cotton at Lake Dick project, Arkansas

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

The Cotton Harvest; Rio De Janeiro and the Organ Mountains, 1875. Creator: Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff
The Cotton Harvest; Rio De Janeiro and the Organ Mountains, 1875. [Plantation workers in Brazil]. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates

Field of cotton, between 1941 and 1942. Creator: Unknown
Field of cotton

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. 1939. Creator: Marion Post Wolcott
Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Mississippi

Chopping cotton, Greene County, Ga. ?, ca. 1941. Creators: Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano
Chopping cotton, Greene County, Georgia?

Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga. 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga

Workers going home from an afternoon of chopping cotton, Greene County, Ga. 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Workers going home from an afternoon of chopping cotton, Greene County, Ga

Sign on U. S. 99 main highway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, Kern County, California, 1939
Kern County, California. Sign on U.S. 99 main highway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. [ Cotton Pickers Wanted - Cabins Furnished ]

Lucille Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Walker Evans
Lucille Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama

Lucille Burroughs in the cotton fields, Hale County, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Walker Evans
Lucille Burroughs in the cotton fields, Hale County, Alabama

Lucille Burroughs picking cotton, Hale County, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Walker Evans
Lucille Burroughs picking cotton, Hale County, Alabama

Cabin in the Cotton, c. 1931-1937. Creator: Horace Pippin
Cabin in the Cotton, c. 1931-1937. African-American artist Horace Pippin began painting as a means of therapy, after his arm was injured during World War I

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

The Hermitage, the Residence and Burial Place of General Jackson, 1845. Creator: Unknown
The Hermitage, the Residence and Burial Place of General Jackson, 1845. View of The Hermitage plantation in Tennessee, USA

12 O clock in the Deadening, ca. 1891. Creator: John Horgan
12 O clock in the Deadening, ca. 1891. (Jas Richardsons Walnut Grove Plantation, Mississippi Valley Route)

A Typical Texas Cotton Field at Picking Time, c1930s. Creator: Unknown
A Typical Texas Cotton Field at Picking Time, c1930s. Cotton farming was a major issue of racial conflict in the history of the United States, particularly during the 19th century

Picking Cotton, 1916. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Picking Cotton, 1916. From America in Pictures, by H. Clive Barnard, M.A. B.Litt. [A. & C. Black, Limited, London, 1916]

Cotton, 1. - Picking Seed Cotton, W. Indies, 1928. From Players Cigarettes - Products of the World: A Series of 50 [John Player & Sons, London, 1928]

Cotton-Picking. c1900. [G. H. Graves, Philadelphia, U.S.A. c1900]

Cotton Plant, c19th century

Cotton Picking, Augusta, Georgia, c1900. Cultivation of cotton using slaves brought huge profits to the owners of large plantations, making them some of the wealthiest men in the U.S

Gathering cotton in a cotton plantation, c1895. From Cassells Illustrated History of England, volume VII (c1895)

A cotton plantation, Rome, Georgia, USA, 1898. Artist: BL Singley
A cotton plantation, Rome, Georgia, USA, 1898. In 1898, Georgia produced half as much cotton as India, and as much cotton as China. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Girls in a cotton field, Kazakhstan, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

A cotton plantation, c1880. Slavery was officially abolished in the United States in 1865. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London)

Cotton picking, Australia, 1928. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Australia, 2nd series

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