Box 8

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image shows complex of wooden buildings with a water tower and chimney. Horse-drawn carts filled with cotton wait in line by the loading dock. Printed on the card: "The above plant was able to handle one-half of the cotton crop of 1906. The total El Campo crop was 5,000 bales. (See Rice Mill in background.)" Card may have been used for promotion as a call-out at right top reads: "Write Gulf Coast Land and Investment Co., St. Louis, Mo., El Campo, Tex." ca. 1906-1907. 12.5 x 9...

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Color image shows horse-drawn carts loaded with raw cotton, waiting their turn at the gin. The drivers remain with their carts. The brick building in the background is the gin; a fence separates the yard from other buildings. No location given. Published by C.T. American Art. Postmarked November 1, 1919 in Henderson, N.C. 14 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image shows a street lined on both sides with horse-drawn carts loaded with raw cotton. Drivers and other workmen stand on the carts and in the street. Buildings are shown on the right but it is unclear which one is a cotton ginning facility. No location given. Published by T.J. Mattox Cigar & Tobacco Co., Montgomery, Ala. C.T. Photocrom. Made in U.S.A. ca. 1907-1915. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image shows a cart of baled cotton and a wagon of raw cotton outside a wooden building. Several workers are in view. A smaller wooden structure is is the background. J. C. Bingley, Charleston, S.C. 13.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image shows a line of horse- or mule-drawn wagons loaded with raw cotton awaiting their turn at the cotton gin. The gin in located in a small wooden structure. Published by J. C. Mickleboro, Marion, Ala. Made in U.S.A. ca. 1907-1915. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image of mule-drawn wagons full of cotton lined up outside gin house. T.P. & Co., N.Y. (Publisher). Postmarked April 29, 1913, Anniston, Ala. 13.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image shows three mule-driven carts loaded with raw cotton. The ginning building is in the background where two overhead chutes transport the cotton through its process. Curteich-Chicago "C.T. Art Colortone" postcard published by or for Bluff City News Co., Memphis, Tenn. ca. 1930-1944. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Color image shows a light-colored, two-story building in the center of a field where horse-drawn carts filled with raw cotton await their turn at the gin. Buildings in the background to the right include a brick building with a tall smokestack. A bridge runs behind the buildings on the left. Published by The Leighton & Valentine Co., N.Y. City. Printed in United States. Postmarked Jan. 28, 1913 in Lexington, S.C. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image shows workman arranging cotton within a wooden bin to prepare for baling. What is shown here is the plantation "flat" or gin-box bale. After the cotton is ginned it is pressed to a density of 12 pounds or more to the square foot, covered with sacking and shipped to the compress for repressing. No location given. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900- 1920. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image shows a mule-drawn cart of cotton backed into the area where a workman is guiding the suction pipe to move the cotton into the gin. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.