1917 Souvenir Postcard

ID: 764 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
This file appears in: The Texas Cotton Palace
1917 Souvenir Postcard

War served as the unofficial theme of the 1917 Cotton Palace. This postcard sought to appeal to both the need for leisure of Camp MacArthur's enlisted men and the general public's interest in American involvement in WWI.

This file appears in: The Texas Cotton Palace

By Jim Stingley
When Stephen F. Austin led the first Anglo-American settlers into Texas including areas along the Brazos River, they brought with them their strong agricultural tradition based on cotton-growing. From the period of annexation until well into the…