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Title: Asleep in the Deep South
Description: An African American cotton worker asleep in the shade by a pile of cotton.

Title: The Cabin in the Cotton
Description: African American cotton pickers working in a cotton field, wood house in the background.

Title: Memphis Before the War.
Date: 1862-04
Description: Old battery at the Navy-yard. Steamboat landing. The cotton levee., From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.

Title: Pargoud
Description: The Pargoud was a large cotton carrier built at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1884. Her dimensions were: - 242 x 43 x 8 feet; 712 tons, net and gross. She ran the New Orleans and Greenville trade. In 1886 Captain J. W. Carlton was master. Captain Mike Corbine was in command in 1897.

Title: Cotton - Its Cultivation and Preparation in America
Description: 1, Cotton Plant. 2, Sowing of Cotton. 3, Hoeing Cottong. 4, Cotton Picking. 5, Cotton Ginning. 6, A Cottong Press. 7, Train laden with Cotton. 8, River Steamer laden with Cotton. 9, Cotton Shoot, conveying bales to the wharf.

Title: Golden Eagle
Description: THE GOLDEN EAGLE WAS BUILT IN 1904 BY THE HOWARD SHIP YARD AND DOCK COMPANY AT JEFFERSONVILLE, INDIANA AS THE WM. GARIG, A SOUTHERN COTTON BOAT. HER WOODEN HULL IS 175 BY 35 BY 5.2 FEET AND THE GROSS AND NET TONNAGE IS 193. THE MACHINERY IS OF 200 HORSEPOWER WITH CYLINDERS 15 INCHES IN DIAMETER AND SIX FEET STROKE. THE BOILERS ARE 44 INCHES IN DIAMETER BY 32 FEET LONG. THE EAGLE PACKET COMPANY

Title: Cotton Picking
Date: 1938
Description: Picking Cotton in Southeast Missouri

Title: Weighing In
Description: Photograph of African American cotton pickers circa 1940.

Title: Cotton Picking
Date: 1938
Description: Picking Cotton in Southeast Missouri

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