Box 7

Scope and Contents Color image of cotton pickers, both Caucasian and African American, dragging sacks of cotton in the field as they pick. One of the pickers is a child. Printed on reverse: "A Texas cotton field. Thousands of scenes similar to this make Texas the leading cotton state in the U.S. It produces more than 2,800,000 bales (500 pounds each) yearly on its rich, alluvial lands. Enormous crops find their way to New England mills and to Europe, and yield about $116,000,000 annually. Cotton-seed exceeds...

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Color image of cotton pickers bent over picking cotton in the field. Blue skies and trees depicted in background. No location given. Robert Thomas, P.O. Box 405, Thomasville, Georgia [photographer?]. Plastichrome by Colourpicture Publishers, Inc., Boston 15, Mass. USA. Postmarked Mar. 30, 1956 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of African American pickers, three men and one woman, in the field with baskets of cotton. Horse and wagon and trees depicted in background. Published by Carter & Gut, N.Y., for the Kress Stores. Postmarked Sept. 18, 1905 in Rome, Georgia. 14 x 9 cm. See Item 53, in this folder, for what appears to be the same image, but with different coloring of the clothes, a slightly different pose of the man in the middle, and a different publisher.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of log cabin with an African American woman and three children in doorway of cabin, presumed to be cotton pickers. Flowering shrubs in foreground. Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No. 2074 "Macon, Ga." Dated Sept. 11, 1903 on front. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of several pickers in the field, all bent over picking cotton. Published by Asheville Post Card Co., Asheville, N.C. Postmarked June 3, 1946 in Lake City, Fla. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of many pickers in the field, most of whom appear to be African American, filling baskets of cotton. A wagon with men loading the cotton is depicted on the right. An overseer on horseback is in the background. ca. 1907-1915. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of a half dozen cotton pickers, all African American, bent over picking cotton in the field. Two large baskets filled with cotton are shown in foreground. E. L. Merrow, Publ. Postmarked Feb. 23, [1920?] in Pinehurst, N.C. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Color image of African American pickers, three men and one woman, in the field with baskets of cotton. Horse and wagon and trees depicted in background. E. C. Kropp, Publ., Milwaukee, Wis. Dated March 11, 1905, Augusta (Ga.?); postmarked March 13, 1905 in Springfield, Mass. 14 x 9 cm. See Item 49, in this folder, for what appears to be the same image, but with different coloring of the clothes, a slightly different pose of the man in the middle, and a different publisher. Format:...

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Color image of pickers filling long sacks with cotton. Wagon with a man standing on top loading cotton on the right. Two men are shown weighing the cotton. Published by Harry Herz, 754 E. Culver St., Phoenix, Arizona. ca. 1915-1930. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image of a man standing on a stepladder to pick cotton from a tall cotton plant. Printed on the botton of the card: "Mammoth Lodi Cotton. 'Eight bales to the acre, and they say there isn't any money in cotton.'" Mammoth Lodi cotton is presumably a reference to a particular variety of cotton plant, one that grows quite tall. Copyright H. W. Brown, Tifton, Ga. Valdosta, Ga. printed on reverse of card. Postmarked Nov. 26, 1910 in Valdosta, Ga. 9 x 14 cm. Format:...