Unloading Bananas, Mobile, Alabama
Color print view of the docks at Mobile Bay located in Mobile, AL. Boat docked and ready to unload and/or load products to be shipped elsewhere. In this case, the product being unloaded are bananas. Other larger ships in background. Postmarked November 23, 1909. Divided back postcard.Printed on fron...
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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 Unloading Bananas, Mobile, Alabama Raphael Tuck & Sons |
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Alabama postcards Mobile (Ala.); Mobile Bay (Ala.); Alabama -- Commerce Business and Industry -- Food Products Alabama; Mobile Shipping; Cargo ships; Bananas; Boats; Boat & ship industry 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 the docks at Mobile Bay located in Mobile, AL. Boat docked and ready to unload and/or load products to be shipped elsewhere. In this case, the product being unloaded are bananas. Other larger ships in background. Postmarked November 23, 1909. Divided back postcard.Printed on front: ' Mobile, Ala.,Unloading Bananas' Printed on back: 'Unloading Bananas, Mobile is the third largest tropical fruit importing city in the United States. The banana industry here excels any otherAtlantic port; the fruit admitted free of duty. The average cargo of 17,000 bunches is unloaded in six hours, and can be delivered in Chicago 36 hours after. Annual inportations average 4,500,000 bunches. Raphael Tuck & Sons' Series 2580, "Mobile, Ala." Art Publishers To Their Majesties The King and Queen. Photochromed in Saxony.Written on back: 'I would sent you a card Nil got this From [illegible]. Cora is getting better sit up alittle yester day. I got my things all wright. I saw in the paper where that fellow that was with a up there got $36. dollars of him. I sent the piece to Vess. Nell I hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving. Mrs. Sam Lawrence, Newman, ILL., R.F.D. 183.' |
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Unloading Bananas, Mobile, AlabamaColor print view of the docks at Mobile Bay located in Mobile, AL. Boat docked and ready to unload and/or load products to be shipped elsewhere. In this case, the product being unloaded are bananas. Other larger ships in background. Postmarked November 23, 1909. Divided back postcard.Printed on front: ' Mobile, Ala.,Unloading Bananas' Printed on back: 'Unloading Bananas, Mobile is the third largest tropical fruit importing city in the United States. The banana industry here excels any otherAtlantic port; the fruit admitted free of duty. The average cargo of 17,000 bunches is unloaded in six hours, and can be delivered in Chicago 36 hours after. Annual inportations average 4,500,000 bunches. Raphael Tuck & Sons' Series 2580, "Mobile, Ala." Art Publishers To Their Majesties The King and Queen. Photochromed in Saxony.Raphael Tuck & Sons19092005Troy University Library Mobile (Ala.); Mobile Bay (Ala.); Alabama -- CommerceBusiness and Industry -- Food ProductsAlabama; MobileShipping; Cargo ships; Bananas; Boats; Boat & ship industryFor 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.Written on back: 'I would sent you a card Nil got this From [illegible]. Cora is getting better sit up alittle yester day. I got my things all wright. I saw in the paper where that fellow that was with a up there got $36. dollars of him. I sent the piece to Vess. Nell I hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving. Mrs. Sam Lawrence, Newman, ILL., R.F.D. 183.'Troy University (Troy, Ala.) Library; University of Alabama Library (Digitization)Box 1, ADAtscwhp001153ADAtscwhp001153.1, ADAtscwhp001153.2 imageeng jpeghttp://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/troy2/id/3099 |
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Unloading Bananas, Mobile, Alabama |
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Unloading Bananas, Mobile, Alabama |
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Raphael Tuck & Sons |
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Raphael Tuck & Sons |
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