File:William L. Sheppard - First use of the Cotton Gin, Harper's weekly, 18 Dec. 1869, p. 813.png
Original file (1,200 × 900 pixels, file size: 2.16 MB, MIME type: image/png)
Captions
Summary[edit]
DescriptionWilliam L. Sheppard - First use of the Cotton Gin, Harper's weekly, 18 Dec. 1869, p. 813.png |
English: African Americans slaves using the First cotton-gin, 1790-1800, drawn by William L. Sheppard. Illustration in Harper's weekly, 1869 Dec. 18, p. 813. Harpers Weekly's illustration depicting event of some 70 years earlier. The illustration is of a Roller Cotton Gin and not an illustration of a Whitney Spike Gin or Holmes Saw Gin. First use of the cotton gin - Our engraving on page 813 represents the primitive cotton-gin, which preceded the saw-gin invented by Eli Whitney toward the close of last century. This simple contrivance consisted of two cylinders revolving in opposite directions, which admitted the fibre readily but prevented the passage of the seed and larger "trash", but not so thoroughly cleaning the cotton as Whitney's machine. The scene represented by our artist is the introduction of the gin on a plantation, amidst the excited curiosity of the negroes, who see in the machine a welcome relief from laborious process of cleaning the cotton by hand. Harper's weekly, 18 december 1869 The Library of Congress, Card 91784966, Call Number : Illus. in AP2.H32 Case Y [P&P], Reproduction number : LC-USZ62-103801 (b&w film copy neg.), Medium: 1 print : wood engraving. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1869 Dec. 18. |
||
Date | |||
Source |
Harper's weekly |
||
Author | William L. Sheppard | ||
Other versions | Cotton gin harpers |
Licensing[edit]
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse |
This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1929, and if not then due to lack of notice or renewal. See this page for further explanation.
|
||
This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.
|
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 18:40, 14 February 2017 | 1,200 × 900 (2.16 MB) | Ambre Troizat (talk | contribs) | User created page with UploadWizard |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on en.wikipedia.org
- Usage on eu.wikipedia.org
- Usage on fr.wikipedia.org
- Usage on fr.wikiversity.org
- Usage on www.wikidata.org
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Horizontal resolution | 98.43 dpc |
---|---|
Vertical resolution | 98.43 dpc |
File change date and time | 18:31, 14 February 2017 |