Cotton Shipping

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Workers load cotton bales onto a ship docked on the Savannah River at Savannah, circa 1880. The river served as an important shipping channel throughout the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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