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Negro worker at cotton compress taking a drink of water from bucket, Houston, Texas

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Freighter docked at port of Houston, Texas

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Loading cotton into hold of ship. Port of Houston, Texas

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Storing bales of cotton into hold for freighter for export. Port of Houston, Texas

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Conveyor of cotton at compress, Houston, Texas

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Storing bales of cotton into hold of freighter for export. Notice the different levels. Port of Houston, Texas

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Adjusting the bale of cotton in the jaws of the compressor. Houston, Texas

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Unloading a carload of cotton at compress. Houston, Texas

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Sampling room, cotton compress, part of compress. Port of Houston, Texas

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Grading cotton at cotton compress, Houston, Texas

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Weighing bale of cotton at unloading platform at compress. Houston, Texas

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Sampler taking a swatch of cotton from basket. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Negro man slashes bale of cotton to take sample as it passes him on a hand truck. Cotton compress, Houston, Texas

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Negro unloading bale of cotton from railroad car. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Weighing cotton at unloading platform. Cotton compress, Houston, Texas

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Testing cotton for length of fiber and grade. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Removing bale of cotton from conveyer. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Warehouse worker atop stack of burlap bags. Compress at Houston, Texas

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Unloading bale of cotton from freight car. Cotton compress, Houston, Texas

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Weighing cotton at unloading platform. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Unloading truckload of cotton. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Putting grappling hooks on bale of cotton. The bale will be weighed as it swings in the air, suspended by these hooks. Cotton compress, Houston, Texas

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Trucker and weighing checker at unloading platform. Cotton compress, Houston, Texas

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Action in loading a bale of cotton onto truck for transporting to compress. Houston, Texas

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Stevedores loading cotton on to the freighter. Port of Houston, Texas

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Hooking on three bales of cotton for hoisting into ship's hold. Port of Houston, Texas

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Tagging samples of cotton. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Unloading bales of cotton from truck-drawn trailers at compress, Houston Texas. Cotton was transported to the compress from Oklahoma in large trucks in background

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Weighing bale of cotton at unloading platform at compress. Houston, Texas

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Loading dock. Cotton compress, Houston, Texas

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Mexican trucker eating lunch atop bales of cotton. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Interior of cotton compress and warehouse. Houston, Texas

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Loading of cotton for export. Notice man operating winch. Port of Houston, Texas

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Storing bales of cotton into hold of freighter for export. Notice the different levels. Port of Houston, Texas

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Sampling and grading cotton as to length and staple and grade under daylight conditions. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Loading dock of compress. Houston, Texas

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Bale of cotton linters and bale of middling cotton side by side in waarehouse. The bale of linter, on the side, left, is the fiber which is close to the seed. One of its major uses is the making of cellulose. Houston, Texas

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Placing bale of cotton into compressing unit. Compress, Houston, Texas. After going through the compress the bale of cotton is about one third its original size

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Removing bale of cotton from conveyer. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Weighing checker at unloading platform. Cotton compress, Houston, Texas

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Houston, Texas. Storing bales of cotton into hold of a freighter for export. Notice the different levels

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Weighing cotton at the unloading platform. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Cutting burlap bag to take sample of cotton from bale. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Shoving a bale of cotton onto conveyor at compress. Houston, Texas

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Unloading freight car load of cotton. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Loading bale of cotton onto hand truck at platform. Cotton compress, Houston, Texas

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Negro women cleaning up damaged bales of cotton. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Putting bale of cotton onto hand truck. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Negro laborers placing bands around compressed bale of cotton. Compress, Houston, Texas

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Negro women cleaning up damaged bales of cotton. Compress, Houston, Texas

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"Killing the spiders" on a bale of cotton. This means knocking down the jagged edges and wire joints. In Texas there is a state law requiring any person handling a bale of cotton to "kill the spiders." Compress, Houston, Texas

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Snipping metal bands off bale of cotton before putting into compress. Houston, Texas

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Sampling room. Port of Houston, Texas

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Unloading bales of cotton from truck-drawn trailers at compress, Houston Texas. Cotton was transported to the compress from Oklahoma in large trucks in background

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