Workers stand behind a long wooden table sorting and packing freshly picked strawberries into quart baskets and wooden crates, with filled baskets stacked in the foreground. The printed caption names the crop and region as "Ozark Strawberries, Southern Missouri," and a red badge in the corner reads "Missouri, The 'Show-Me' State." The Ozarks of southern Missouri were a noted strawberry-producing area in the early-to-mid twentieth century, and the scene shows the packing-shed stage between field harvest and shipment.
Linen-textured stock with a turquoise border; printed caption reads "OZARK STRAWBERRIES, SOUTHERN MISSOURI" (spelling correct), with a "MISSOURI THE 'SHOW-ME' STATE" slogan emblem in a decorative red border. Light edge and corner wear.
No postmark (no stamp affixed; printed "PLACE STAMP HERE" box). Linen-texture divided-back card with publisher imprint "Ozark Post Card Publishers, Box 455, Monett, Mo." and series number 4034; addressed in manuscript to Marie Jones, Fayetteville, Ark., with message signed "Minnie R" and a handwritten "1945" year notation.
Cite this card
Strawberry packing shed, Missouri Ozarks, 1945, postcard, c. 1945. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/strawberry-packing-shed-missouri-ozarks-1945. Accessed November 2, 2026.
