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El
Paso, TX - 1937 Wide World Photo
On back - Guarding against Cotton Thieves / Armed guards stand by
as a picker safely unloads his sack into the Cotton Wagon on the
farm of Ben Ivey forty miles from here along the Mexico Border.
The farmers in the vicinity have had to post guards against the
depredations of Raiders from across the Rio Grande. The men in this
photograph are only 100 yards from the river.
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O'Donnell,
TX - 1937 Associated Press Photo
Farmers near O'Donnell,
TX are pitching cotton into wagons, to be taken to town for ginning
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Ralls,
TX 1928 Model "E" Cotton Picker Machine
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Hamlin,
TX Cotton Scene circa 1910
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"Cotton
Yard, First Street" Colorado
TX
Postmarked 1913
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Quanah,
TX Cotton Yard - pstmrk 1908
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"Cotton
markets a bale to the acre worth $60.00 per bale in South Texas. It
will net $30.00 per acre. Ask the Emigration Land Co, Des Moines,
Ia." - Advertising circa 1910
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