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[Sabine Packing Co.]

Description: Photographic postcard picturing the "Plant of the Sabine Packing Co., Orange, Texas" The picture shows a number of buildings and barns. Correspondence on the back of the card reads, "This is where Joe Spring (Fannie's husband) is working as engineer and also helped to install the machinery in the first place. about 3 miles out on oilfield road - he goes in car - Uncles you know where [ ] lived when we lived in West Orange. Fannie now live two houses over on that Ct. and Joe is doing lots bett… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Postcard of a Cotton Blockade in a Railroad Yard]

Description: Postcard of a Cotton Blockade in a Houston Railroad Yard. Several parallel lines of track are packed full of trains and train cars loaded with bales of cotton. Several workers sit on the top of a bale of cotton on the right side of the frame. There are many buildings spread across the background on the right side of the frame.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard of Rice Industry in South Texas]

Description: Postcard of several workers in the rice industry working in a field. Several men and children stand with several carts and horses loaded with foliage. Text on the back of the card reads "Just rec'd your card- and am patiently waiting for the book you have to write in. If I survive Thanksgiving I'll write to you. Hazel" The card is addressed to Miss Annie Forsgard of Waco, Texas.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Packing House Near Waco]

Description: Postcard of a colorized photograph of a packing house with several rows of farm workers posing in front of it, standing, sitting, and standing on raised platforms with fields in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Packing House on Falkners Fruit Farm, 1 Mile from Waco, Tex." There is a handwritten note on the back of the postcard.
Date: November 4, 1908
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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