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Cotton
Compress, Austin, Texas
Showing
Part of 11,000 bales of Cotton on Platform
Postcard Postmarked 1910 |
1908 Photo of Farmers Cotton Gin, Charley Texas |
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Cotton is picked in August. Yield 1/2 ti 3/4 bales per acre, makes $25 to $40
per acre. Nine thousand acres in the El
Campo district. Rice harvesting befins also in August. Advertising Postcard
circa.1910 |
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| Editor’s
Note:
Will and Karla
Beauchamp of Tuleta, Texas
both descend from ancestors who planted cotton. Will’s
father also taught Texas history in nearby Pettus, Texas. The apple doesn’t fall
from the tree and Will discovered early on that he had inherited the history gene.
In Mr. Beauchamp’s own words: “I started out collecting antique bottles in
my youth in the Tuleta / Beeville
area of South Texas. My father teaching
history just fueled my desire to collect historical items, especially from South
Texas. I then started collecting cotton gin postcards. Almost every town
in Texas had at least one cotton gin and many had several. Before and after
the Civil War many Southerners migrated to Texas.
The families were so big that most farms were self-sufficient. Many cotton farmers
who knew nothing else found that cotton didn't grow very
well in some regions.”
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