Item 80: Shipping Cotton, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Color image of a busy scene, with African American workers moving bags and bales of cotton on a crowded dock. Several ships, some loaded with cotton bales, are visible on the left side of the image. Printed on reverse of card: "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. ca. 1930-1944. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.