Laborer cutting down sugar cane with a machete, Banes, Cuba – Vintage Print
![Laborer cutting down sugar cane with a machete, Banes, Cuba, [Published 1948?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/47/47d037e57371-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Laborer cutting down sugar cane with a machete, Banes, Cuba. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Laborer cutting down sugar cane with a machete, Banes, Cuba
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A worker swings a machete through a dense stand of sugar cane in Banes, a town in Holguin Province on Cuba's northeastern coast. The town was closely tied to the United Fruit Company, whose sugar operations dominated the surrounding landscape in the 1940s, and the photograph's credit line reflects that corporate origin. Cane cutting was still largely manual labor at the time, and images like this one were often circulated to present the industry's scale and the human effort behind it. Looking closely, you can see how the tall stalks press in on the figure, a reminder of how physically demanding the harvest was.
| Created / published | [Published 1948?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Pier 3 |
| Notes | Credit line: Courtesy of United Fruit Company |
| Subjects | Sugar plantations--Cuba--Banes (Holguin)--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,292 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-178562 |
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