Sep 23, 2024
Driving the Cotton Between Two Rollers In Order to Press Out the Seed - "ginning", Japan, about 1873–1888
Hand-colored albumen silver print from an album of Japanese Trades by Shinichi Suzuki (Japanese, 1835 - 1919), photographer
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Driving the Cotton Between Two Rollers In Order to Press Out the Seed - "ginning", Japan, about 1873–1888
Hand-colored albumen silver print from an album of Japanese Trades by Shinichi Suzuki (Japanese, 1835 - 1919), photographer
Textile day; cotton gin, loom, and spinning wheel.
Eli Whitney – Scientist of the Day
Eli Whitney, an American manufacturer and inventor, was born Dec. 8, 1765, in Massachusetts.
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My father used to say "What was so good about the 'good old days'? The outhouses? The wood stoves?"... and he would go on. I look at this 1936 photo and the hard work of these women brings what he said to mind. These are the Walker sisters, ginning cotton in front of their log cabin in Little Greenbrier Cove, Tennessee. Two are turning the wheels and it looks like the third is feeding the cotton through the gin. I bet that they were hot, dusty, and tired! Old family photos like this provide us with a glimpse into what everyday life was like and reminds us that 'the good old days' sometimes weren't as good as we like to remember.
Broken glass and shattered dreams.......
A bit of October 28th history...
1492 - Christopher Columbus sights Cuba and claims it for Spain under the name “Juana”
1538 - The 1st university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomas de Aquino, is established on Hispaniola
1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the Cotton Gin
1886 - Statue of Liberty dedicated by US President Cleveland, celebrated by 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC
1904 - St Louis police try a new investigation method - fingerprints
1919 - Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Wilson’s veto
1924 - “Taung Child” discovered in lime quarry in Taung, South Africa; paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus Africanus (thought killed by eagle)
1965 - Gateway Arch (630 ft high) completed in St Louis, Missouri (pictured)
2015 - Research indicating Plague dates back to the Bronze Age in skeletons, 5,783 years old, published
Pick 70 pounds.
Jump down, turn around, swelter.
King Cotton. Still Poor.
(iPhone 8; abandoned cotton gin company store; Arkansas Delta)
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Cotton Ginning Day Postmarked March 1912