Cotton (29)

by . 6-year old Jewel Walker picks cotton in Comanche County, Oklahoma. Other pictures taken in Comanche include quotations from parents and children, and detail about their labor. For example, Jewel and [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Bishop, RoAnn. Agriculture in North Carolina during the Great Depression Originally published as "Difficult Days on Tar Heel Farms" by RoAnn Bishop Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by Hill, Michael. Air-conditioning greatly changed the nature of life in North Carolina and the rest of the South. Willis H. Carrier, who had created an experimental cooling system in New York in 1902, installed the [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by . Alamance Cotton Mill Alamance Cotton Mill, as it appeared in 1837 shortly after construction. The mill was built by Edwin M. Holt, a pioneer of the Southern textile [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Helms, J. Douglas. Boll weevils, or cotton boll weevils, were a significant problem to North Carolina cotton growers during much of the twentieth century. The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) came to the attention of [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Glass, Brent D. James William Cannon, textile manufacturer, was born near Sugaw Creek Church in Mecklenburg County. His father was Joseph Allison Cannon and his mother, Eliza Long. As a boy he worked on his father's [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by . Cotton boll close-up Close-up photo of cotton boll, showing the seed embedded in the [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

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by Glass, Brent D. Cotton Mills by Brent D. Glass, 2006 See also: Schenck-Warlick Mill. The earliest cotton mills in North Carolina, with a few exceptions, operated along rivers and streams in [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Wait, Douglas A. North Carolina has produced and transported commercial exports since its establishment as an English colony. The primary exports from the colony were products of the forest. By the 1720s naval [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Norris, David A. Factors, also known as "commission merchants," were commercial agents who handled the exchange of goods on behalf of planters. A factor sold cotton or other crops and made the arrangements for [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Bishop, RoAnn. By the 1920s, North Carolina had become the nation’s largest producer of cotton textiles and the leading industrial state in the Southeast. At the same time, it boasted more farms than every state [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by Strong, Ellen R. George Alexander Gray, cotton manufacturer of Gastonia, was one of a group of self-educated, self-trained engineers in the South who brought technical proficiency to cotton manufacturing. He was born [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by York, Maury. Harriet-Henderson Cotton Mills Strike by Maurice C. York, 2006 See also: Gastonia Strike; Textile Strike of 1934 In 1895, with the financial assistance of local investors, brothers David [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)