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This sketch was a preliminary study for the Mullins Post Office mural painted by Lee Gatch in 1940, titled "Tobacco and Industry." Courtesy of the South Carolina State Museum.
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As important as the growing of cotton was its marketing, and in this the Cotton Exchange played a powerful role in the local economy. All of the members of the Charleston Cotton Exchange were...
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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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Interior of a large ginning mill, ginning sea island cotton at Alexander Knox's plantation in Mount Pleasant, early in the 20th century. Courtesy of the Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina.
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A cotton gin in operation at Strawberry Hill plantation, photographed in 1897. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.
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A cotton press for compressing short-staple cotton. To maximize use of space on the vessels in which cotton was shipped to England, the use of cotton presses to compress the bulky cotton was adopted...
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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...