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  • Santolina Cameacypalissus (Cotton lavender)
  • Santolina pinnata (Cotton lavender)
  • Portrait of Nathaniel Cotton
  • Cotton spinning couple. Watercolour drawing.
  • Cotton Mather. Photogravure after P. Pelham, 1727.
  • Aimé Auguste Cotton. Photograph by Studio Harcourt.
  • The Cotton Famine, Manchester, 19th century.
  • Portrait of Richard Cotton, head and shoulders
  • Children in a cotton factory 'picking cotton', 1844
  • cotton thread
  • Cotton plant (Gossypium species): flowering stem. Watercolour by J.E.F.
  • Sarawak: a girl extracting the seeds of raw cotton in a cotton gin. Photograph.
  • Nathaniel Cotton. Line engraving by W. H. Worthington, 1820, after J. Thurston.
  • Cotton Mather. Line engraving by W. J. Alais after P. Pelham, 1727.
  • Electro-magnet devised by Aimé Auguste Cotton, in the Académie des Sciences, Paris. Photograph.
  • Chinese woodcut: Abscesses -- 'cotton sore'
  • Cotton tree (Gossypium herbaceum): flower, fruits and seed. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • Textiles: cultivation and spinning of cotton. Engraving.
  • Textiles: carding and spinning of cotton. Engraving.
  • Textiles: sorting and spinning of cotton. Engraving.
  • A Jain cotton manufacture couple. Gouache drawing.
  • Textiles: cultivation and spinning of cotton. Engraving.
  • Patient biting on a roll of cotton
  • A cotton factory in which a man is feeding raw cotton into a willowing machine. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • Sarawak: a girl spinning cotton into thread. Photograph.