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Box 8

 Container

Contains 245 Results:

Item 90: Cotton Pickers Returning from the Field

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Color image of five African American cotton workers, three males and two females, one of whom is a child, with a horse-drawn wagon loaded with baskets of cotton. A dirt road and house are visible in the background. Location is unknown. E.C. Kropp, Publ., Milwaukee. ca. 1907. 14 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 91: Cotton Scene, Galveston, Texas

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Color image of a railroad yard filled with rows of cotton bales, some of which are being loaded onto the railroad cars that are lined up at the back of the yard. On one train car, the letters "S.A. & A.P." are visible. In the background, city buildings can be seen. Published by International Post Card Co., New York. Made in Germany. ca. 1907-1915. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 92: Scene on the Levee, Memphis, Tennessee

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Color image of a busy dock, loaded with rows of sacks and bales of cotton. Workers are seen throughout the image, some carrying sacks. Steamers are lined up at the dock, some loaded with cotton bales. Postmarked May 21, 191- [date is blurred with ink]. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 93: Cotton Warehouse, Savannah, Georgia

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Color image of the interior of a cotton warehouse filled with bales of cotton. Two male workers, one African American, are seen holding bits of cotton in their hands. Other workers are visible looking at cotton bales in the background. Published by the Valentine & Sons Publishing Co., Ltd., New York and Atlanta, Ga. Printed in Great Britain. ca. 1907-1915. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 94: Cotton! Cotton! Cotton! Levee, New Orleans, La.

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents Black-and-white image of a levee scene in which the ground is covered in rows of cotton bales. Workers can be seen laying and standing on the cotton bales and walking about the levee; the two workers laying on the bales in the foreground are African American. In the background, two large river steamers are visible. The cotton bales have been unloaded from river steamers, and will be loaded onto ocean-going vessels and transported to other states and countries. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View...
Dates: 1842-2003

Item 95: Shipping cotton from levee near growing district by cars to manufacturing centre, Texas

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents Black-and- white image of African American workers loading bales of cotton onto railroad cars to be shipped to a manufacturing center. The workers are using dollies to transport the heavy bales into the cars, on the right side of the image. On the left side of the image, the ground is covered with bales, upon one of which two men stand, one of whom (holding papers in his hand) is the overseer. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 17.75 x 8.75 cm. Copy A. Format:...
Dates: 1842-2003

Item 96: Wharf Loading Cotton, Memphis, Tennessee

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Color image of a wharf. On the left side of the image, steamboats are visible in the water and at the wharf with ramps to the land. On the edge of the wharf, there are rows of cotton bales, and people walking and riding horse-drawn carriages. On the right side of the image, train tracks are visible, and several people can be seen walking along the tracks. Published by International Post Card Co., New York. Made in Germany. ca. 1907-1915. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 97: Shipping Cotton, Norfolk Harbor, Norfolk, Virginia

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents Color image of Norfolk Harbor. In the foreground, docks are covered with bales of cotton and workers are standing among the bales. One ship is docked and several others are in the water nearby. The city is visible in the background of the image. Printed on reverse of card: "Shipping cotton, Norfolk Harbor, Norfolk Va. The location of Norfolk makes it a logical distributing center for the handling of cotton for all markets." Copyrighted, H.C. Mann. Published by Louis Kaufmann & Sons,...
Dates: 1842-2003

Item 98: Ten Carloads of Cotton, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Color image of railroad cars loaded high with bales of cotton. A railroad car on the right side of the image reads "St. Louis & San Fransisco" on the side of the car. Open flatbed railroad cars on the left side of the image are also loaded with cotton bales. Manufactured by Curt Teich & Co., Chicago, Ill. ca. 1907-1915. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 99: Weighing Cotton, 1905

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents Color image of a cotton bale-filled yard in between several buildings. Workers with cotton bales on dollies are gathered around a large scale, on which a cotton bale is being weighed. Written on front of card: "My latest business in Memphis. Murray." Detroit Publishing Co. Postmarked May 8, 1906 in Memphis, Tenn., and May 10, 1906 in Port Jervis, N.Y. 14 x 9 cm. See Item 107, in this folder, for this same image copyrighted (but undated) by the Detroit Publishing Co. sometime between 1915 and...
Dates: 1905