The photographer Robert Banks of Manchester, England accompanied a party of members of the European Cotton Spinners Association to the Atlanta Cotton Convention and on a journey of more than 4,000 miles by special train. He took 271 photographs which he offered for sale in albums or as single prints. This album, presented to R.J. Allen includes several images on board the Cunard liners 'Campania' and 'Caronia' including a group portrait in which three men are holding cameras; harbour views at New York and New Orleans; an image of the Powerhouse and Falls at Niagara, an interior view of the slaughterhouse in Chicago; cityscapes around New York; an interior view of the railway carriage in which R.J. Allen and the others travelled 4,411 miles in the U.S.A. and Canada; images of workers in the fields, compressing the cotton, the cotton markets; and several group portraits at the conventions in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.