Hundreds of cotton bales are stacked in long rows along Poplar Street in Macon, Georgia, filling the roadway between brick commercial blocks while a few figures and horse-drawn wagons stand among them. The view looks south along the street. Macon was a major cotton market and railroad junction in central Georgia, and such street-side bale yards were a common sight at the height of the cotton trade in the early 20th century.
White border; chromolithograph printed in Germany; handwritten greeting on the front lower right; light surface spotting and edge wear.
Postmark: MACON GA NOV 23 11-AM 1906; receiving mark: MASS NOV 26 3-30A. Undivided back ("THE ADDRESS TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE"); Tuck Post Card Series No. 2074, "Macon, Ga."; light edge wear.
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Cotton bales stacked on Poplar Street, Macon, GA, 1906, postcard, c. 1906. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/cotton-bales-stacked-on-poplar-street-macon-ga-1906. Accessed November 2, 2026.
