Cotton cropping systems in China, such as the patchwork of farms along the Yangtze River Valley, are quite different from the large-scale systems used for cotton in the US and Australia.

With help from the Field’s archival photos, records, and staff, Lee was able to identify the majority of the specimens Cotton stuffed and maintained. For the duration of the exhibit, which runs ...

It was almost as an afterthought that Kathleen Robbins shared some vintage family photos with me. Frame after frame of folks neatly centered in endless cotton fields. And it wasn't until then that ...