Weighing Sugar Cane Before Unloading at Mill, Cuba – Antique Print
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Step back in time with Weighing Sugar Cane Before Unloading at Mill, Cuba, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Weighing Sugar Cane Before Unloading at Mill, Cuba
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Cane carts and weighing scales were the first stop for every load bound for a Cuban sugar mill, so this view of the weighing step captures the point where a harvest's value was first measured. Cuba's economy was built around sugar for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the large central mills that processed the cane were among the island's most important industrial sites. Weighing the cane before unloading set the price a grower would be paid, which made the scale house a place where planters, workers and mill officials met over the value of each cartload. The scene shows the manual labor and raw agricultural bulk that sustained the sugar trade.
| Original scan | 7,429 × 5,848 px · prints to 25 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 18273u |
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