- Collection:
- Picturing Augusta: Historic Postcards from the Collection of the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System
- Title:
- Weighing cotton
- Publisher:
- New York : Taylor Platt Co.
- Date of Original:
- 1900/1914
- Subject:
- Cotton--Georgia--Augusta
Scales (Weighing instruments)--Georgia--Augusta--Pictorial works
Cotton baling--Georgia--Augusta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- picture postcards
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Early-twentieth century postcard image of seven men surrounding a cotton scale while bales are being weighed. Upon being baled, cotton would be weighed and tagged before being placed on the open market.
Front of postcard: "160."
Original postcard scanned and described by the Digital Library of Georgia as a part of Georgia HomePLACE: an initiative of the Georgia Public Library Service and GALILEO. - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gaec_hagp_aep037
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gaec_hagp_aep037#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gaec_hagp_aep037/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of postcard], Augusta and Environs Picture Post Cards in Color, Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1 postcard : col. ill.
- Holding Institution:
- Augusta-Richmond County Public Library
- Rights:
-
