Historical Cotton Images

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October 28, 2017

This Georgia historical marker briefly mentions that Eli Whitney built his first cotton gin at Mulberry Grove Plantation. (Special Photo)Library of Congress

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A group of Texas cotton pickers stops for a photograph in 1895. (Special Photo)

A mule-drawn wagon full of cotton travels down an Oklahoma road in 1935. (Special Photo)

An old slave block, a reminder of the dark days of slavery, can still be seen in Fredericksburg, Va. (Special Photo)

This is a family of slaves in Georgia circa 1850. (Special Photo)

Harold, age 5, and his sister Jewell, age 6, pick cotton in 1910.(Special Photo)

This government photograph of cotton picking was taken in 1907. (Special Photo)

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A sign in the 1930s advertises the need for cotton pickers in California. (Special Photo)

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