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Hand-colored print of workers beside a lap-frame cotton machine in a mill interior with overhead belts and pulleys.

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Progress of Cotton; #3 Lap-frame, James Richard Barfoot (1840). Via artnap.com

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Why is this public domain? James Richard Barfoot died in 1863; this work is in the public domain.

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This hand-colored print shows a factory interior with a large lap-frame machine processing cotton, with belts and pulleys driving it from overhead shafts. Two workers handle cotton rolls on the brick floor scattered with loose fibers, one carrying a heavy roll and the other standing near the window. The work is titled Progress of Cotton, No. 3, Lap-Frame, by James Richard Barfoot, dated 1840.