Pyrtle Community Women
Description
Four African American men standing in front a canning plant.Pyrtle Community Farmer. Carpenters and Albert Coss, principal of the Pyrtle School, and H. L. Brown, County Agricultural Agent. The farmers built the canning plant for Pyrtle Community, Kilgore, Texas, assisted by Albert Coss, Principal of the Pyrtle School and County Agnet H.L Brown. This house was built of new lumber, corrugated roofing, concrete floors, three ventilators, and stationed and moveable tables
The cost was $317.50 and plans were furnished by the Prairie View Extension department.
Although some of the descriptions of photographs in this collection have been altered for clarity, a majority of the descriptions are transcribed verbatim from the back of the photographs and reflect the language of those times.
Subject
Kilgore (USA, Texas)Brown, H.L.
Coss, Albert
Pyrtle School
Prairie View Extension Department
Agriculture
Group portraits
Canneries
Cannery workers
Citation
(1950). Pyrtle Community Women. Physical: Agricultural Communications and Journalism Program, Texas A&M University; Digital: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, <a href="mailto:cushing-library@tamu.edu">Email</a>, Phone: 979-845-1951, <a href="http://cushing.library.tamu.edu/">Website</a>. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /92012.