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Photos: Cotton

The photos are toward the bottom of the page. Here are some links to help you teach about cotton and cotton-related topics:

Information on the cotton production cycle can be found at this site at:
http://www.jmadden.info/Cotton2.htm

From NARA - Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin

Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

Teaching resources from "Cotton Counts"

Moving cotton from the field to fabric

Cotton Council International - facts and figures plus international cotton links - good for finding out about the dollars connected to this industry

Cotton in Australia - lots of pictures and information at this site to learn about cotton in general

10,000 years of cotton in Peru

Clicking on the thumbnail of the photo will take you to the larger image. Most are around 640x480 and average around 50 kb each for file size.

Closeup of a field of cotton about to harvested Here's a cotton bale just produced by the cotton module Identification marker sprayed on the side of a bale of cotton out in the field
You can see the cotton buggy next to the cotton module where the cotton is packed into bales Cotton bales just produced out in the field A Taylor Cotton Buggy
A Taylor Cotton Buggy from the end You can see the tractor pulling the cotton buggy Closeup of cotton in the field
Side view of the front of a cotton harvester Pickup mechanism for the cotton harvester More detailed view of the pick-up mechanism on the cotton harvester
Frontal view of cotton harvester A cotton harvester Cotton field about to be harvested
Cotton field about to be harvested Panoramic view of cotton field about to be harvested Cotton close-up in the field
Close-up view of cotton module where cotton is packed into giant bales A closeup of one of the side of one of the large cotton bales produced at harvest time. These are the huge cotton bales produced by the cotton modules.
Another perspective on two huge cotton bales packed and ready to go in the cotton field You can see a cotton module and a cotton buggy in the field. A broad view of a cotton field ready to be harvested
This is a cotton press preserved from the 1700's near Dillon, South Carolina. This is a closeup of the large gears in the cotton press. This is another view of the cotton press.
Here is a perspective of the cotton press where you can see it in its entirety. Another view of the cotton press The cotton press from the other side.
The other side of the cotton press An historic marker explaining the origins of the cotton press

Soggy, left-over cotton still hanging on the plant
 		 Close-up of cotton on the plant

Cotton in the field
 Cotton on the plant
 


 
  
Cotton on the plant - segments visible
  Cotton in the field


   
 Bits of cotton left after harvest
  Cotton in field after harvest
  
  
 Harvested cotton field
  
  
  


Last edited:  January 10, 2005