In this publicity photo provided by the World’s Fair of 1940, “Southern belles” from Tennessee and Florida, wearing “cotton picking attire,” pose with a Rust Cotton Picker. On the picker is written: “This is the machine that attracted worldwide attention in 1936 when it was demonstrated at the Delta Experiment Station, Stoneville, Mississippi.”
Dozens of newspapers in the United States and Canada published a wire photo of the Stoneville demonstration, including the Arizona Republic, on Sept. 9, 1936.
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