African Americans picking cotton in the U.S. South in 1887. Wood engraving from a drawing by Horace Bradley.
African American men, women, and children, employed as cotton pickers in North Carolina, 1900.
Four African American women picking cotton in Tallulah, Louisiana. Ca. 1924-25. A child accompanies the working women.
Tractor at work in a field.
Philippine revolutionary soldiers fire in the trenches at Malate, Philippines, in Feb. 1899. This was the beginning of the Philippine-American War, prompted by US denial of Filipino claims for nationa
African Americans picking cotton in the U.S. South in 1887. Wood engraving from a drawing by Horace Bradley.
African American slaves using a cotton gin. Wood engraving after a drawing by William L. Sheppard from HARPER'S WEEKLY 1869 with modern watercolor.
Idealized view of cotton plantation on the Mississippi River, with African American workers. Evocative of Southern antebellum era of pre-Civil War prosperity and slavery. Color lithograph, 1884
Young Raoul Julien had already worked for two years in the mule-spinning room in Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vermont, when Lewis Hine took this photo in 1909.
African Americans leaving a cotton field after a day of picking in the U.S. South. 1887 engraving from a drawing by Matt Morgan.
Child laborer portrayed by Lewis Hine in 1909. Barefooted boy in a George cotton mill was so small he had to climb up on the spinning frame to mend the broken threads and put back the empty bobbins.