Railroad near Bf.(?) (probably Bluefields) looking toward Greytown – Antique Wall Art
![Railroad near Bf.(?) (probably Bluefields) looking toward Greytown, [between 1885 and 1893(?)] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/47/479ca5cd651e-L.webp)
(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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Railroad near Bf.(?) (probably Bluefields) looking toward Greytown
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A rail line runs through dense tropical forest near Bluefields, on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, with the view stretching toward Greytown, the port at the mouth of the San Juan River. In the late 1800s this coastal region was far from the Pacific cities that dominated Nicaraguan politics, and it had its own history under the Mosquito Coast. British influence there lasted until 1860, and the area was not fully folded into the Nicaraguan state until 1894. Rail and river routes were the main ways to move goods and people through this humid, lightly settled country, so the track here shows how outsiders tried to connect the coast to wider trade.
| Created / published | [between 1885 and 1893(?)] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1900. |
| Subjects | Railroad tracks--Nicaragua--Bluefields--1880-1900. Tropical forests--Nicaragua--Bluefields--1880-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,163 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-162876 |
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