Cotton Gin at Dahomey – Historic Print
![Cotton Gin at Dahomey, [between 1885 and 1898] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e9/e9b339f3fb81-L.webp)
(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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Cotton Gin at Dahomey 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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Cotton Gin at Dahomey
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Few pictures in the set show the machinery that turned raw cotton into marketable fiber, and this interior view of the gin at Dahomey, in Mississippi's Delta country, does. The Detroit Photographic Company made it in the late 1880s or 1890s, when cotton ginning was among the region's most important industries. Gins like this one separated seed from lint, and the photograph lets viewers see the belts, frames, and crowded workspace that made the process possible. The print is mounted on linen and back to back with a companion view of cotton fields, a pairing that suggests it was meant to be seen as part of a larger sequence.
| Created / published | [between 1885 and 1898] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print mounted on linen ; image 42.1 x 52.6 cm. |
| Genre | Mammoth plates.Photographic prints. |
| Notes | Mounted back to back with 01571. Cotton fields at Swiftwater." May have been part of an album. "Detroit Photographic Co." Listed in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 1572. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Cotton industry. Interiors. Industrial facilities.United States--Mississippi--Dahomey. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 772 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-79370 |
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