Title

Cotton from the bale is transported by belt...for making bats, Laurel, Mississippi, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Cotton from the bale is transported by belt to machine for making cotton bats. Weighing device is so sensitive that it directs the cotton from one machine to another. Laurel, Mississippi.

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A53_421

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,7Mb (1,8Mb) / 16,5in x 12,6in / 4960 x 3787 (300dpi)

Keywords

interior library work economics manufacturing country trade scales factory photography machine machinery poor poverty location century Mississippi inside thirties bale concept depression negative recession cotton B&W Library of Congress United States of America laurel weighing device Indoors black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression Jones American America USA TGN photograph united states Congressional Library Heritage Art Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative still image Safety film negatives. gmgpc