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Newspaper Clipping, Freighting Cotton In The Early Days
Newspaper Clipping, Freighting Cotton In The Early Days
Farming in Arkansas
As part of a special interest column, the Mammoth Spring Democrat often ran old photos. This article depicts horse and mule drawn wagons hauling five cotton bales each from a farm in Camp, Arkansas to a cotton gin in Mammoth Spring for processing.
Steam Tractor And Baler
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of an early steam-powered tractor and baler depicted at harvest time along with farm laborers and horses.
Mammoth Spring Milling Company
Mammoth Spring Milling Company
Farming in Arkansas
This is a photograph of the Mammoth Spring Milling Company's main building. Unidentified employees stand by railroad boxcars which would be loaded with processed grains.
Franz Turkey Farm
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of two Franz turkey farm employees standing in a flock of turkeys.
Cotton Gin
Farming in Arkansas
Black and white photograph of three unidentified men standing in a cotton gin with bales of cotton. This gin was opened by John Michaels in the early 1920s and operated successfully until it burned in 1941.
Cotton Harvest
Farming in Arkansas
Color photograph of a cotton farmer clearing the harvesting equipment of the gathered raw cotton.
Rufus Laine On A Plow
Farming in Arkansas
Color photograph of Rufus Laine on his mule-drawn, double plow. Laine was a farmer in Craighead County.
Plowing Soybeans, Rose City
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of three unidentified African American men plowing a soybean field with mules near Rose City in Pulaski County.
Strawberry Pickers' Camp, Bald Knob
Strawberry Pickers' Camp, Bald Knob
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of a strawberry pickers' camp with tents, campers, and automobiles at Bald Knob.
Seeding Rice Near Lonoke
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of three men in a tractor-pulled machine planting rice in a field near Lonoke.
Cutting Rice On Willman's Farm Near Lonoke
Cutting Rice On Willman's Farm Near Lonoke
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of two men on a tractor-pulled harvester, cutting rice on Willman's Farm, near Lonoke.
Loading Fodder Into A Wagon
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of two unidentified men loading fodder into a horse-drawn wagon from a corn shock.
Cottonseed Cake Press, Cottonseed Oil Mill In Rose City
Cottonseed Cake Press, Cottonseed Oil Mill In Rose City
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of two unidentified African American men working at a cottonseed cake press in the Rose City Cotton Oil Mill.
Hulling Cottonseed, Cottonseed Oil Mill In Rose City
Hulling Cottonseed, Cottonseed Oil Mill In Rose City
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of an unidentified African American man running a brush over a tray of seed to hull the cottonseeds in the Rose City Cotton Oil Mill.
Cotton Field At Lake Dick
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of an unidentified man working with a cultivator in a cotton field at the Lake Dick Farm Security Administration Project.
Men Picking Peaches In Summersweet Orchard Near Colt
Men Picking Peaches In Summersweet Orchard Near Colt
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of several unidentified men picking peaches in Summersweet Orchard near Colt, on Crowley's Ridge.
Strawberry Pickers In Mcrae
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of strawberry pickers in a field at McRae in White County.
Plowing A Corn Field
Farming in Arkansas
Black and white photograph of Richie and Joe Washam plowing a cornfield using a mule.
Hog Butchering
Farming in Arkansas
Black and white photograph of hogs being butchered. From left to right: workers, Adolph Bullock, Dewitt Clarence Williams, Sant Lunn (Mrs. Atkin's Father), and Bent Palmer, who lived in the house in the background. This photograph was taken on Highway 289 across from English Creek in Mammoth Spring.