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6 photos and 1 illustration tagged cottongin, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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• southernmethodistuniversity
• library
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• cookcollection
• texas
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• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
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Cotton gin, Batangas (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Melinda Young Stuart said:

  Wow. I like the patchwork head scarf. Beautiful image of a hard working woman. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batangas Today, Batangas is in the Philippines. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin The original invention seems to derive from India, and the original word "gin" in this context seems to be a Hindi word. Not much useful info readily found.