Unloading bananas from a ship, by means of a conveyor – Vintage Print
(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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Step back in time with Unloading bananas from a ship, by means of a conveyor, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Unloading bananas from a ship, by means of a conveyor
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Bananas arriving at the New Orleans docks were moved off the ships by a mechanical conveyor, a sight that set this scene apart from the hand-loaded cargo common on the waterfront. New Orleans was among the busiest U.S. ports for the fruit in the early 1900s, when steamships carried it north from Central America and the Caribbean. Speed mattered because bananas ripen quickly, so quick unloading and rail transfer were essential. The photograph comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for documenting American cities, industries and scenery in the years around 1911.
| Created / published | c1911 Jan. 9. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | J150614 U.S. Copyright Office Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No orig. neg. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shipping; Banana trade; Fruit; La.--New Orleans; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,207 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131558 |
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