- Collection:
- Picturing Augusta: Historic Postcards from the Collection of the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System
- Title:
- King cotton, Augusta, Ga.
- Publisher:
- Chicago : Curt Teich Co.
- Date of Original:
- 1900/1914
- Subject:
- Cotton--Georgia--Augusta--Pictorial works
Cotton--Flowering - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- picture postcards
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Postcard image of artistic rendering of a flowering branch of cotton. Augusta's premier location on the Savannah River allowed the city to become a center for the cotton trade in the United States. During the early 1900s, Augusta was recognized as the second largest inland cotton market in the world, and was promoted within the United States as the "Lowell of the South." By 1908, Augusta was home to thirteen cotton mills that employed nearly seven thousand Augustans.
Front of postcard: "2210."
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_aep042
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gaec_hagp_aep042#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gaec_hagp_aep042/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:
-
