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1 Quart Strawberry ticket; Charles Catron
| Issuer | Charles Catron |
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| Year | 1900-1940 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | GOOD FOR 1 QUART CHARLES CATRON Not Transferable |
| Reverse description | Plain pink card stock, unprinted. Faint bleed-through impression of the obverse letterpress text is visible at centre, confirming uniface production. |
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Agricultural trade tokens and commodity scrip of this kind were common across rural America from the late nineteenth century through the Depression years, issued by individual farmers, canneries, and packing operations to pay pickers in scrip redeemable only against the harvest they were picking. The system kept wages tied to the operation and discouraged workers from spending at competing vendors. Catron's name suggests an individual grower rather than a cooperative, though without corroborating records the scale of the operation is impossible to establish.
Card stock tickets of this type rarely survived the season they were issued.