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P-V2091 Cars Loaded with Cotton Bales on Levee, Near Cotton Growing District, Texas

ca. 1900

Texas, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This stereograph card depicts a group of loading bales of cotton into railcars. The stereograph card consists of two similar images side by side, with the images in the center of the card. At either end of the card is vertical script. On the left side margin is script that reads "Keystone View Company/ Copyright by Underwood & Underwood/ Manufactures Made in U.S.A. Publishers." On the right side margin is script that reads "Meadville, Pa., New York, Portland/ Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus." Text on the bottom right margin of the card read "P-V22091 Cars Loaded with Cotton Bales on Levee/ Near Cotton Growing District, Texas." There is text on the back of the card.

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Catalog reference: 2015.248.4.11

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