- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of William H. Davis Lummus Automatic Cotton Ginning System, Barrow County, Georgia, 1945]
- Date of Original:
- 1945
- Subject:
- Cotton gins and ginning--Georgia--Barrow County
Business--Georgia--Barrow County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Barrow County, 33.9932, -83.71276
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Barrow County, 1945. William H. Davis Lummus Automatic Cotton Ginning System, located on U.S. Highway 29 across from the G.W. Summerour & Company, Inc. Man stands next to the Lummus Electrical Feeder. Cotton can be seen being procesed through this piece of machinery. The sign on the feeder at the right indicated that the Lummus Cotton Gin Co. was located in Columbus, Ga. The Davis owned gin was torn down in the 1950s. The area now used to store lumber for Summerour.
2003/02/27: The current status of the site could not be verified. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_brw026
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:brw026
- Rights Holder:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
-
