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Manila hemp industry, Philippines: Filipino rope factory, hacking the fiber – Historic Reproduction

Manila hemp industry, Philippines: Filipino rope factory, hacking the fiber, c1906. — historic photograph
Manila hemp industry, Philippines: Filipino rope factory, hacking the fiber, c1906.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 Manila hemp industry, Philippines: Filipino rope factory, hacking the fiber in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Hemp from the Philippines, known as abacá or Manila hemp, was prized for its strength and resistance to salt water, which made it the preferred material for ship cordage. This stereograph, copyrighted by the Keystone View Company around 1906, shows a worker hacking the fiber by hand, the first step in turning the plant's stalks into usable strands. Stereo cards like this one were sold in sets to be viewed through a stereoscope, and they gave armchair audiences in the United States a close look at industries in distant colonies. The Philippines was then under American administration, which helped make Manila hemp a familiar commodity in American trade.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 10046-(13). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Ind.--Rope; Ph.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 789 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157924

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