The Southern Sugar Company [Photograph Album] by [Dahlberg, Bror] [Florida] [Sugar] - 1927

New York: Public Relations, Inc, 1927. Oblong quarto [23 cm x 30 cm] Dark brown pebbled leather with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Internal three-ring binder. Contains 23 silver gelatin photographs. Professionally produced photograph album for the Southern Sugar Company of Clewiston, Florida. All of the photographs are 8" x 10" [20 cm x 26 cm] and are linen backed with typed descriptions attached to the rear of all views.

1: Bror Dahlberg
2: "A waving field of sugar cane..."
3: "seedling sugar cane beds..."
4: "seedling sugar cane beds..."
5: "seedling sugar cane beds..."
6: Clewiston Inn
7: Residential section of Clewiston
8: General Store, Post Office, Everglades Bank of Clewiston
9: Clewsiton Motor Co.
10: New school of Clewsiton
11: Crystalina sugar cane
12: Height of sugar cane
13: Tractor hauling a trailer of sugar cane
14: Southern Sugar Company mill
15: B.A. Bourne, assistant pathologist
16: Sugar cane seedling field
17: Typical field gang
18: Tractor and plow
19: Row of java cane near Canal Point
20: Row of sugar cane
21: Row of sugar cane
22: Row of sugar cane
23: Lock and spillway from Lake Okeechobee.

These views show the growing, harvesting and production of sugar by the Southern Sugar Company of Clewiston, Florida. The Southern Sugar Company had purchased land and equipment from the Pennsylvania Sugar Company (PENNSUCO) in the early 1920s and set up the mill in Clewiston on the north side of the Lake Okeechobee. By the late 1920s the Southern Sugar Corporation was struggling amid the emerging national economic depression. In 1931, the industrialist Charles Stewart Mott bought the bankrupt Southern Sugar Corporation, renaming it the United States Sugar Corporation and turned the company into one of the largest agricultural operations in the world.