Photo of Della Higginbotham and Hypolite Richard

ID: 1733 ~ Source: Blake Venable ~ Date: circa late 1930s

This file appears in: Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin: Supplying rural farmers with the means to gin their cotton from the 1930s until the 1970s.

This file appears in: Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin: Supplying rural farmers with the means to gin their cotton from the 1930s until the 1970s.

Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin: Supplying rural farmers with the means to gin their cotton from the 1930s until the 1970s.

By Kallie R. Barron

For over 200 years, Cajuns in rural Acadiana cultivated coton jaune, an heirloom variety of cotton brown or beige in color, on a domestic scale for clothing and bedding. Blankets and sheets were…