A 1937 model cotton picker in the South. Stoneville, Miss. – Antique Print
(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 1937 model cotton picker in the South. Stoneville, Miss. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A 1937 model cotton picker in the South. Stoneville, Miss.
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Stoneville, in the Mississippi Delta, was home to a federal agricultural research station, and this picture documents an early attempt to replace hand labor in the cotton fields with a machine. The title places the picker as a 1937 model, though the caption card itself gives no date. Mechanical cotton pickers were still experimental in the 1930s, and the work of inventors and engineers in the South was slowly moving the crop away from the sack-dragging hand harvest that had defined it for generations. The Bureau of Agricultural Engineering, which made the photograph, was documenting such machines as part of that effort.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Subjects | Photo by Bureau of Agricultural Engineering. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cotton picking; Cotton industry...; Mississippi--S-; Farm machinery; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,111 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-137989 |
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