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@ The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama

Erik Overbey

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One of Mobile's most important exports starting in the late nineteenth century and continuing into the first decades of the twentieth century were the bananas imported from the Caribbean and South America. Here, laborers are loading bananas onto a railroad car for shipment to other parts of the country. This photograph was taken around 1905.
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University of South Alabama, McCall Library

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