Item 30: Cotton Compress, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Color image of a cotton compress, possibly in the building in the left background, with rows of cotton bales along the wooden floor and piles of bales in the background, all out in the open. A worker is standing on a cotton bale in the center of the image. Printed on the reverse of the card: "Oklahoma City is the capital of the recently created state of Oklahoma. It is the principal city in that state. During the cotton season thousands of bales of cotton are brought to the compress to be compressed in bales so they may be shipped over the entire world. A bale of cotton weighs abou 500 pounds." Oklahoma became a state on November 15, 1907. [1908] 14 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.