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Cotton gins and ginning

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85033328

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Bonney and Bush and Bush and Lobdell collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0186
Abstract

Letters to the machinery manufactures Booney and Bush, and Bush and Lobdell, both of Wilmington, Delaware, concerning machinery, cotton gins, and business conditions in Alabama, 1836-1843.

Dates: 1836-1843

Folder 31

 File — Box 72: [Barcode: 1006213225], Folder: 31
Identifier: Folder 31
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting unidentified people, church buildings, urban areas, railroad tracks, and cotton gin.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Marjorie L. Smith Cotton Slides

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-004
Abstract

This collection contains seventy-one color slides depicting various stages of cotton production, taken by Marjorie L. Smith in and around Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama. Slides also show images of an African American church in Hayneville.

Dates: 1960 - 1965

Tuscaloosa Cotton Gin and Sawmill Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-026
Abstract

Photographs of Tuscaloosa cotton gin and sawmill, as well as African-American women carrying baskets on their heads.

Dates: 1938