Agriculture has always been an important part of our lives here in South Carolina!
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This cotton market in Hartsville, in Darlington County, dealt primarily in long-staple cotton, used in the 1930s in fine yarns, and in the fabric or cords on which tires were built. Works Progress...
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Harvester tipping a load of cotton into a wagon in Calhoun County, September 1968. Although the U.S. Department of Agriculture began experimenting with mechanical cotton pickers in the 1920s, they...
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"A Keowee Church Farm Cotton Picking." This photograph of whites picking cotton, taken around 1900 in York County, is from the collection of Miss Margaret Gist. She was active in the missionary...
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A cotton field during harvesting in Aiken. Courtesy of the Aiken County Historical Museum.
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Woodcut by Anna Heyward Taylor of a boll weevil. As early as 1728, a cotton weevil was reported in North Carolina, but the pest now known by the name of "boll weevil" did not become a major threat to...
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Ripened bolls of short-staple cotton in the fields of Calhoun County in September of 1968. Cotton still produced in South Carolina dominated agriculture in the state in the first half of the 19th...
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Cotton in bloom in Florence County, August 30, 1967. Photo by L.W. Riley. Courtesy of the Clemson University Libraries.
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“L” is for Long, William Williams [1861-1934]. Agriculturalist. A native North Carolinian, Long worked his family farm before joining the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Plant Industry. He...