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  • Textiles: a cotton spinning wheel. Engraving by Eastgate.
  • Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.
  • A man carding cotton. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Textiles: an automatic "mule" cotton spinning machine, plan. Engraving.
  • Sarawak: a girl weaving cotton on a loom. Photograph.
  • Textiles: a roving machine for cotton manufacture. Engraving, c. 1858.
  • Textiles: an automatic "mule" cotton spinning machine, side elevation. Engraving.
  • Photograph depicting how the gauze-cotton mask should be worn
  • A man carding cotton. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Textiles: women and children working at large cotton manufacturing machines. Engraving.
  • Side view of skull with a surgical bandage of native cotton.
  • Men dyeing cotton blue and red. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • A man and a woman making cotton. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Take a tip from us : cotton on to Q-tips profit!.
  • Take a tip from us : cotton on to Q-tips profit!.
  • Take a tip from us : cotton on to Q-tips profit!.
  • African peach (Sarcocephalus latifolius): fruiting and flowering stem with section of fruit. Coloured steel engraving by W. Say, c. 1812, after B. Cotton.
  • Textiles: spinning machines and parts of a cotton plant. Engraving by D.Lizars.
  • Textiles: weaving of cotton (top), the side elevation of a loom (below). Engraving.
  • Charles Cotton's fishing house on the Dove River, Beresford Dale, Derbyshire: two men fishing from the banks of the river. Engraving after Wilson.
  • Women and children are working at large cotton looms. Lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • Textiles: an automatic scutching machine for cotton. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.
  • Textiles: an automatic spinning machine for cotton. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.
  • Textiles: a cotton spinning wheel, a stove, and two insects. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Textiles: a line of steam-driven cotton machines (above), a slasher-sizeing machine (below). Engraving.
  • A woman is winding cotton around the stems of flowers. Coloured lithograph by Charles Philipon.
  • People with baskets and sacks pick cotton on a plantation. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • Women and children operating cotton-carding machines in a factory. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • A nurse or midwife reading a thermometer and wiping it after use with cotton wool. Lithograph.
  • A nurse or midwife reading a thermometer and wiping it after use with cotton wool. Lithograph.