Banana transportation. Tela Railroad Company. Don Pia Maradiaga (48 years on the job) gives orders. Honduras – Historic 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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This rare historic photograph captures Banana transportation. Tela Railroad Company. Don Pia Maradiaga (48 years on the job) gives orders. Honduras in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Banana transportation. Tela Railroad Company. Don Pia Maradiaga (48 years on the job) gives orders. Honduras
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Here a foreman named Pia Maradiaga, who had spent 48 years on the job, stands in the midst of banana transport for the Tela Railroad Company in Honduras. The company ran the rail lines that carried fruit from plantations to the coast, and the banana trade of that era depended on such crews moving heavy loads quickly before the fruit spoiled. The photograph was taken in October 1948 and appeared in Unifruitco, the trade publication of the United Fruit Company, which had close ties to the Tela Railroad. Its record in the Library of Congress describes a man whose long service and authority over the work make him a telling figure of the period's fruit economy.
| Created / published | 1948 Oct. |
|---|---|
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | No. 1078F Published in Unifruitco, Oct. 1948, p. 17. |
| Subjects | Maradiaga, Pia. Tela Railroad Company--People--1940-1950. Railroad employees--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,270 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-181909 |
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