Bananas, Cuba – Antique Wall Art
(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 Bananas, Cuba, 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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Bananas, Cuba
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Bananas grow in dense, leafy stands in this 1917 view of Cuba, and the photograph's own title does most of the describing: it is a study of the crop rather than of a town or a person. Cuba's banana plantations were a visible part of the island's agriculture in the early twentieth century, when fruit was grown for both local markets and export. Pictures like this one document the plants themselves, their broad leaves and clustered fruit, at a time when the island's farms were increasingly tied to foreign trade. The print is one of a numbered group of 1910s photographs in the Library of Congress collection, which makes it useful for seeing how the land was worked.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | No. 9, no. 15. |
| Subjects | Banana plants--Cuba--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,130 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-167578 |
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