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black and white drawing showing a barn in the background; in the foreground men are working around and on a strange tall piece of equipment which looks like a huge screw with attached wooden platform — Illustration of a cotton press and cotton stand in South Carolina in 1871. Image from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, October 7, 1871 (https://www2.gwu.edu/~folklife/bighouse/images/xiii1.jpg).