Item 47: A Texas Cotton Field, 1907

Color image of cotton pickers, both Caucasian and African American, dragging sacks of cotton in the field as they pick. One of the pickers is a child. Printed on reverse: "A Texas cotton field. Thousands of scenes similar to this make Texas the leading cotton state in the U.S. It produces more than 2,800,000 bales (500 pounds each) yearly on its rich, alluvial lands. Enormous crops find their way to New England mills and to Europe, and yield about $116,000,000 annually. Cotton-seed exceeds 600,000 tons, employing innumerable oil mills." Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No. 2378, "Dallas, Texas." Postmarked April 3, 1907 in San Antonio, Tex. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.