Scope and Contents From the Series:

Also among the records are typewritten reports on the actual stock of cotton in the port of New Orleans for all or part of the following years: 1903-1917, 1919, 1922-1927, 1930-1937, 1939-1945, 1948-1949, 1951-1953, and 1955. There are also reports of cotton exported from the U.S. for the years 1919 and 1920.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Also among the records are typewritten reports on the actual stock of cotton in the port of New Orleans for all or part of the following years: 1903-1917, 1919, 1922-1927, 1930-1937, 1939-1945, 1948-1949, 1951-1953, and 1955. There are also reports of cotton exported from the U.S. for the years 1919 and 1920.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Also among the records are typewritten reports on the actual stock of cotton in the port of New Orleans for all or part of the following years: 1903-1917, 1919, 1922-1927, 1930-1937, 1939-1945, 1948-1949, 1951-1953, and 1955. There are also reports of cotton exported from the U.S. for the years 1919 and 1920.

Scope and Contents The documentation on the oldest bale of cotton grown in America includes mostly correspondence tracing the history of the subject bale from its harvest in ca. 1862 through its donation to the Cotton Exchange in 1945. Allegedly grown by Levi Peeden in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, the cotton bale (with several others) came into possession of the First National Bank of West Point (Mississippi). The bank exhibited the cotton at events such as the Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893) and the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The documentation on the oldest bale of cotton grown in America includes mostly correspondence tracing the history of the subject bale from its harvest in ca. 1862 through its donation to the Cotton Exchange in 1945. Allegedly grown by Levi Peeden in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, the cotton bale (with several others) came into possession of the First National Bank of West Point (Mississippi). The bank exhibited the cotton at events such as the Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893) and the...