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Cotton bales on Second Street, Macon, Georgia, circa 1910

Subjects
Street ScenesTrucks & Wagons
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1902 (Early)
Front of Cotton bales on Second Street, Macon, Georgia, circa 1910, Miss Charlotte Barnard, MA, USA, c. 1902 lithograph postcard
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Back of Cotton bales on Second Street, Macon, Georgia, circa 1910, Miss Charlotte Barnard, MA, USA, c. 1902 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

Second Street in Macon, Georgia, is lined with great stacks of cotton bales awaiting shipment, with a horse-drawn wagon and a loaded cart in the roadway and the Willingham cotton warehouses ("E.J. & P.D. WILLINGHAM") behind. Macon was one of the largest inland cotton markets in the South, and its Second Street cotton yards and warehouses were a well-known sight where bales were graded, weighed and stored before rail shipment. The domed and towered brick commercial blocks and the distant clock tower reflect the city's prosperous early-20th-century downtown.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Nov 25-08 from Papa

PublisherSouvenir Post Card Co.
20180 SECOND STREET, MACON, GA. --- Post Card This space may be used for Correspondence The Address only to be Written Here SOUVENIR POST CARD CO. NEW YORK. PRINTED IN GERMANY
PostmarkedMacon, GA
Stamp
Addressed to
Miss Charlotte Barnard

Amesbury, MA

Postcard record

PostmarkedMacon, GA
PublisherSouvenir Post Card Co.
Series20180
ConditionGood
Place addressedMiss Charlotte Barnard, Amesbury, MA
PublisherSouvenir Post Card Co., New York, NY
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1902
NotesThin white border; dark smudge/stain at top center; printed card number 20180 in the caption. Postmark: MACON GA. 19 08 (month/day partly obscured by the printed 'Post Card'). Divided-back 'Post Card' with 'This space may be used for Correspondence'; imprint 'SOUVENIR POST CARD CO. NEW YORK. PRINTED IN GERMANY'; 1¢ Franklin stamp; sender dated it Nov 25-08. Light corner/edge wear.

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Cotton bales on Second Street, Macon, Georgia, circa 1910, postcard, c. 1902. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/cotton-bales-on-second-street-macon-georgia-circa-1910. Accessed October 24, 2026.