Dominican Republic. View of a well maintained section on the carretera Sanchez, bwteen [sic] the Capital and San Cristobal, a town located to the west of the capital – Historic Photograph Print
![Dominican Republic. View of a well maintained section on the carretera Sanchez, bwteen [sic] the Capital and San Cristobal, a town located to the west of the capital, [between 1922 and 1924] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/06/06effa9bf9ed-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Dominican Republic. View of a well maintained section on the carretera Sanchez, bwteen [sic] the Capital and San Cristobal, a town located to the west of the capital. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Dominican Republic. View of a well maintained section on the carretera Sanchez, bwteen [sic] the Capital and San Cristobal, a town located to the west of the capital
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The particular detail here is the road itself: a well-kept stretch of the carretera Sánchez, the highway linking Santo Domingo, then called the Capital, with San Cristóbal, a town west of it. The Dominican Republic was under United States military occupation from 1916 to 1924, and during those years American engineers and the occupation government put real effort into building and repairing roads, partly to move goods and troops and partly to tie the interior to the coast. A photograph of a smooth, maintained highway from that period records both the new infrastructure and the foreign administration that paid for it.
| Created / published | [between 1922 and 1924] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1920-1930. |
| Notes | Hanna-McCormick collection. |
| Subjects | Roads--Dominican Republic--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,299 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-184072 |
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