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Tela Railroad Co. Honduras. Milk is delivered at Toloa farm – Historic Reproduction

Tela Railroad Co. Honduras. Milk is delivered at Toloa farm, [1948 Oct.] — historic photograph
Tela Railroad Co. Honduras. Milk is delivered at Toloa farm, [1948 Oct.]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic photograph of Tela Railroad Co. Honduras. Milk is delivered at Toloa farm brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Tela Railroad Co. Honduras. Milk is delivered at Toloa farm

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Milk being delivered at the Toloa farm is the scene here, photographed for the Tela Railroad Company, a United Fruit Company subsidiary that operated rail lines in northern Honduras to carry bananas from plantations to the coast. The company ran the picture in Unifruitco, its own publication, in October 1948, and the caption files it under dairy production. The image is a useful reminder that the railroad's operations were supported by farming and food supply as well as the fruit trade.

Created / published[1948 Oct.]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesCredit line: Courtesy United Fruit Company. No. 2937F. Published In: Unifruitco, Oct. 1948, p. 20.
SubjectsDairy products industry--Honduras--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,263 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181945

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