Snapshots of the Past

[Central America] – Historic Reproduction

[Central America], 1948 — historic photograph
[Central America], 1948. 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.)

Description

Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Central America]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.

[Central America]

Order a print

Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal

Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.

Sign up for our newsletter

Sent securely. No purchase needed. Unsubscribe anytime.

Ask about licensing or this print

Little is recorded about this print beyond its caption, which names Central America and fruit farming, and its maker, the United Fruit Company. Founded in Boston in 1899, the company built its business on bananas grown on large plantations along the Caribbean coasts of Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama, and it shipped the fruit north on its own steamers. Company photographs of this kind were often used to present its tropical operations to buyers and the public, and the banana trade remained central to the region's economy in 1948. Today, viewers may notice how such images portrayed plantation agriculture as orderly and productive.

Created / published1948
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhotoprint by United Fruit Co. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Farm crops--Fruit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,240 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157890

More from the Historic Print Archive collection

Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.

Related pictures

[Central America][Central America][Central America][Central America]First America's discoverersFirst America's discoverersAmerica. A national songAmerica. A national songJ.C. can save America!J.C. can save America!Proclamation of Emancipation by the President of the United States of America / W. Roberts del., C.A. Alvord, printer.Proclamation of Emancipation by the President of the United States of America /