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[Man, with horses and wagons, taking seed cotton to gin, 1917] – Vintage Print

[Man, with horses and wagons, taking seed cotton to gin, 1917] — historic photograph
[Man, with horses and wagons, taking seed cotton to gin, 1917]. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Man, with horses and wagons, taking seed cotton to gin, 1917], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A man leads a team of horses and wagons loaded with seed cotton, headed for the gin, in this 1917 photograph from the Library of Congress. Cotton was the dominant cash crop across much of the American South in those years, and the trip from field to gin was a central step in turning the harvest into marketable fiber. Before the gin separated fiber from seed, raw cotton had to be hauled by wagon, often over rough rural roads, so scenes like this one show the animal labor that kept the crop moving. The horses and wagons also reflect how dependent farm work still was on draft animals in the early twentieth century.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1917
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,036 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127838

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