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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Unloading Sugar at the Galveston Docks


I found this undated photo in T. C. Rozelle's scrapbook.  It dates from the early 20th century and shows stevedores unloading sacks of raw sugar on the Galveston docks.  The picture has extremely fine resolution, so you can (almost) read the no-smoking sign on the warehouse, pick out the crane operators on the ship, and clearly see the dollies they used to cart the bags from the ship to the warehouse.   I think those were 200-lb. bags of sticky, raw sugar.

Notice the ship in the back is much, much larger than the sugar freighter in the front.  I'm not sure what type of cargo it was carrying -- possibly cotton?