[Sugar plantation] – Historic Print
![[Sugar plantation], [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/51/519d731118c8-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.)
Description
[Sugar plantation] comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Sugar plantation]
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The only name attached to this sugar plantation is Fumagalli, taken from a shelflist card whose details remain unverified, and no date survives to fix when the picture was made. Sugar estates ran on a cycle of planting, cutting cane, milling the stalks, and boiling the juice into sugar, work that depended on large and often coerced labor across the Caribbean, Latin America, and the American South. Pictures of such estates tend to show mills and cane fields arranged to suggest order and scale, so the viewer should ask who appears in the frame and who does not.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on shelflist card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Fumagalli. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114953 |
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