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Vintage photos of:
Georgia circa 1904. "Savannah Cotton Exchange." Note cotton-themed fountain landscaping and juvenile welcoming committee. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Below is the same view from July of 2010.
For those whose lives have been spent north of the Mason-Dixon line, I'm pretty sure that those are cotton plants in winter in the center of the "winged lion" statue area. I lived in the northeast for my first 22 years of life and was quite fascinated when I left home and saw cotton growing for the first time.
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