Antique & Vintage Postcards

Rising dramatically from the flat, misty Everglades landscape, the massive United States Sugar Corporation processing plant at Clewiston, Florida dominates this vivid linen-era card — its USSC logo bold in red on the main building, four sleek white smokestacks piercing a theatrical Art Deco sky, and a vast foreground of gleaming raw sugar bags stacked in long rows like a crystalline harvest ready for the world. Clewiston, founded largely around the sugar industry in the 1930s, was marketed as "America's Sweetest Town," and the USSC facility described on the back was at the time the largest raw sugar house in the continental United States, capable of producing over one million pounds of raw sugar per day from Everglades-grown sugarcane — an eighteen-hour journey from cane to crystal. Published by Curteich of Chicago with their signature Art-Colortone linen process, this is a superb example of industrial-pride Americana, documenting an agricultural enterprise that remains controversial for its environmental impact on the Everglades to this day.