Antique & Vintage Postcards

Workers haul bundled celery stalks from rich Florida muck fields in this early hand-colored halftone postcard — one of the most evocative documents of Florida's booming Edwardian-era vegetable industry, when Sanford and the St. Johns River basin made Florida celery famous on tables from New York to Chicago. Published by A.C. Bosselman & Co. of New York as card #11249, the image shows a racially mixed crew of field workers, packers, and supervisors at a loading station, with horse-drawn wagons waiting in the background — a rare and historically significant glimpse of agricultural labor in the Jim Crow South. The undivided-style back with a "T"-format message/address divide and the Bosselman imprint date this firmly to the 1905–1910 Pioneer/Undivided-Back transition era. The card was never posted or written on, preserving it in clean, collectible condition.