"First photograph ever taken of the first cotton picking machine."

An African American man sits on the machine and two other men, presumably owners or inventors, stand beside it. Lucy Bell Railey took the photograph in a cotton field near Selma, Alabama.

Bibliographic Details
Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photo/id/3187

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