Can anyone help me with what process is going on here please? On the back of the photo it says “cotton workers”.
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Looks like a tannery to me ?
sep 2, 2025, 9:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanks Gerry.
sep 2, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
I think that they are cotton gins, part of a process to remove seeds from the cotton, comb it, then bale it. Interestingly, the sacks say the material has come from Southern Rhodesia, which was a big supplier of cotton.
sep 2, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 1 • view
Thanks! They seem to have some sort of extraction device to get the dust out of the air???
sep 2, 2025, 10:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes I saw that but they seem a bit high. I wondered if they were doing the reverse - blowing air out to help separate the strands before being fed into the machine.
sep 2, 2025, 10:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh that’s an interesting thought.
sep 2, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view