Cotton gin -- Ginning cotton
still image
Graphic
Government publication
Wood engravings -- 1850-1860
Periodical illustrations -- 1850-1860
nyu
New York
NY. New York
Harper & Brothers
[January 1854]
1854
monographic
eng
1 print: wood engraving; image 17 x 12 cm. (6.5 x 4.75 in)
Engraving is one of several accompanying T.B. Thorpe's article "Cotton and its Cultivation." Set in a gin-house, it shows two plantation hands working at a cotton gin. While a man pushes cotton out of the "packing-room" (a loft space) and down a chute, a woman uses a rake-like tool to guide it through the gin. Standing nearby, a woman with a bucket on her head watches the process, and a man peeks into the gin-house through an open window. Two large baskets used for carrying cotton can be seen in the left foreground.
Illustration in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 8, no. 46 (March 1854), p. 459.
Cotton gins and ginning
Cotton plantation workers
African American agricultural laborers
Slave labor
Southern States
62992.O
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Per H 9 62992.O v 8 n 46 March 1854 p 459
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854
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