The sweet venders, Kingston, Jamaica – 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.)
Description
Step back in time with The sweet venders, Kingston, Jamaica, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The sweet venders, Kingston, Jamaica
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Sweet sellers working a Kingston street are the subject of this stereograph, a small trade that would have been part of everyday life in the Jamaican capital around 1899. Stereo cards like this one held two nearly identical photographs side by side, which a stereoscope merged into a single image with depth. Views of colonial port cities such as Kingston were popular with armchair travelers, and the vendors, their goods and the people around them offer a record of ordinary commercial life at the end of the nineteenth century.
| Created / published | c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Street vendors--Jamaica--Kingston--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,173 × 4,170 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139945 |
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