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- Peter Cousins with Rust Cotton Picker in Henry Ford Museum, 1995 -
- February 13, 1995
- Collections - Artifact
Peter Cousins with Rust Cotton Picker in Henry Ford Museum, 1995
- 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.
- Rust Cotton Picker, circa 1975 -
- circa 1975
- Collections - Artifact
Rust Cotton Picker, circa 1975