Cutting cane on a Cuban sugar plantation – Historic Reproduction
(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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Cutting cane on a Cuban sugar plantation
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Cane cutting was the daily core of Cuba's sugar economy in the early twentieth century, and this c1904 view by the Detroit Photographic Company shows the work at ground level, with laborers swinging machetes through the stalks. The Detroit Photographic Company, known for its color-tinted views sold to American buyers, produced many scenes of the island after the Spanish-American War, when American capital and attention flowed heavily into Cuban sugar. Cutters worked long hours in the harvest season, and the cane they cleared was hauled to mills called centrales. The print is a useful record of the manual labor that powered that boom.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | No. 09221. Copyright by Detroit Photographic Co. |
| Subjects | Sugarcane--Cuba--1900-1910. Harvesting--Cuba--1900-1910. Agricultural laborers--Cuba--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,269 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-186198 |
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