About This Object
- Gold plated umbrella handle with pearl inlays. Engraved on it is "J. K. Strecker, Supt. Poultry Dept., Texas Cotton Palace 1915, By Breeders & Friends."
Curious Facts
The Cotton Palace was an exhibition ground in Waco, Texas, from 1895 to 1930. Waco stylized itself as the Cotton Capital of the South, and its leading citizens organized a weeks long exhibition intended to celebrate the end of the growing season and cotton’s central role in the state’s economy.