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Agriculture North Carolina Mecklenburg County

Cotton Screw Press

A cotton screw press somewhere in Charlotte. Physical Description: 3x5 color Publisher: Washington News Company

Loading Cotton onto Rail Cars

Shows workers trucking cotton on the Old City Platform. Physical Description: 3x5 black and white Publisher: Stone and Barringer Publishers

Sharecropper's home

Photograph of a typical sharecropper or tenant farmer's home in Mecklenburg County Physical Description: Original from Tompkins Collection4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Cotton workers

Cotton pickers waiting to load the wagons. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Cotton machinery

Machines like this were used for picking cotton. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Cotton Workers

Cotton worker driving cotton to gin in a mule-drawn wagon. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Cotton Machinery

Machine used for picking cotton. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Cotton Machinery

Travelling cotton gin Physical Description: 4x5 negativeOriginal from Tompkins Papers Publisher: Unknown

Cotton Machinery

Machine reginning cotton in a cotton seed oil machine. Physical Description: 4x5. Negative Publisher: Unknown

Carding and Spinning cotton

Workers on a farm carding and spinning cotton. Physical Description: 4x5 negativeOriginal from Tompkins Papers Collection Publisher: Unknown