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- Self-Propelled Cotton Picker, 1950 - This is the first commercially successful self-propelled cotton picker. The inventor, John Rust, worked for decades to develop a machine that would end the back-breaking labor of picking cotton that he experienced in his youth. The machine reduced the labor required to pick cotton by 80%, contributing to the Great Migration from the rural south to northern cities in the 1950s.
- 1950
- Collections - Artifact
Self-Propelled Cotton Picker, 1950
This is the first commercially successful self-propelled cotton picker. The inventor, John Rust, worked for decades to develop a machine that would end the back-breaking labor of picking cotton that he experienced in his youth. The machine reduced the labor required to pick cotton by 80%, contributing to the Great Migration from the rural south to northern cities in the 1950s.
- A Pictorial History of the Development of the Ben Pearson Rust Cotton Picker, circa 1965 -
- circa 1965
- Collections - Artifact
A Pictorial History of the Development of the Ben Pearson Rust Cotton Picker, circa 1965