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Front: Rolling Cotton Down the Bluff, Huntsville, Alabama
Back: ROLLING COTTON DOWN THE BLUFF. This picture shows the negroes rolling the cotton down the bluff to be loaded on the waitiug steamer. The average bale weighs 500 pounds. One hundred years ago it would have taken a person working night and day two years to separate the seed from the cotton in one bale; to-day a battery ginnery has a capacity of 155 hundred pound bales in twelve hours.
Source: Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series "In the Land of Cotton"
Rights: From the postcard collection of George and Peg Heeschen, The Southpaw, Huntsville, Alabama