City Directories and History: This postcard shows a rarely surviving antebellum wooden cotton screw press, an instrument used across much of the rural South, to press loose cotton into bales, prior to shipping. Few small farmer could afford the work required to have these machines and would often wait their turn and have their cotton pressed and baled at neighboring farms for small fees.
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***The SC Artisans Database lists only four individuals who were classified as builders of cotton presses prior to 1870. Others, like carpenters, were engaged in regularly repairing cotton presses, including replacing wooden gear teeth.
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