| Summary: | Color print view of a loading dock in Mobile, AL. Large multi-deck ships and riverboats docked at wharf. Farmers and other workers waiting to load their product onto ships. Stacks of cotton and other products being carried onboard, one bale at a time. Black smoke billowing from ship's smokestacks. Divided back postcard.Printed on front: 'Shipping Cotton, Mobile, Ala. -11' Printed on back: 'Loading cotton: Husky, singing negroes handle these great bales of cotton as most people would handle bed pillows. On the great Mississippi river, packets and barges are piled high with the billowy white cotton, tightly encased in burlap wrappings. Made in U. S. A. By E. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wis. - 17774.'
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