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The Cotton Pickers
The Cotton Pickers, 1876 is an oil painting by Winslow Homer of two young African-American women in a cotton field.
Stately, silent and with barely a flicker of sadness on their faces, the two black women in the painting are unmistakable in their disillusionment: they picked cotton before the war and they are still picking cotton afterward.
It is oil on canvas, 24 1/16 x 38 1/8 in. (61.12 x 96.84 cm).
The painting is in the collection of the
companies redoubled their efforts to produce practical pickers not based on the Rust patents. Then, widespread adoption was delayed by the manufacturing demands of World War II. The International Harvester produced a commercially-successful commercial cotton picker in 1944. After World War II, the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company manufactured cotton pickers using an improved Rust design. In the following years mechanical pickers were gradually improved and were increasingly adopted by farmers.
The introduction of the cotton picker has been cited as a factor in the Second Great Migration.