Shipping Cotton, Mobile, Alabama
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 smokestac...
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Wade Hall Postcard Collection |
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Troy University Library |
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Troy University Library |
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Alabama postcards |
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Alabama postcards Shipping Cotton, Mobile, Alabama E. C. Kropp Co. |
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Alabama postcards Mobile (Ala.); Cotton -- Alabama; Cotton growing -- Alabama Geography and Environment -- Human Environment -- Cities and Towns; Agriculture -- Row Crops Alabama; Mobile; Mobile Bay; Cotton Culture; Cotton Cotton; Cotton industry; Commerce; Ships For information on using this for a K-12 assignment, go to Alabama Moments in American History. |
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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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Shipping Cotton, Mobile, AlabamaColor 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.'E. C. Kropp Co.19302005Troy University Library Mobile (Ala.); Cotton -- Alabama; Cotton growing -- AlabamaGeography and Environment -- Human Environment -- Cities and Towns; Agriculture -- Row CropsAlabama; Mobile; Mobile Bay; Cotton Culture; CottonCotton; Cotton industry; Commerce; ShipsFor information on using this for a K-12 assignment, go to Alabama Moments in American History.This collection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. copyright law.Wade Hall Postcard Collection, Troy University Library, Special Collections.Troy University (Troy, Ala.) Library; University of Alabama Library (Digitization)Box 1, ADAtscwhp000476ADAtscwhp000476.1, ADAtscwhp000476.2imageengjpeghttp://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/troy2/id/2016 |
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Shipping Cotton, Mobile, Alabama |
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Shipping Cotton, Mobile, Alabama |
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E. C. Kropp Co. |
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E. C. Kropp Co. |
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