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[Tourists buying coconuts and fruit from vendor, probably Nassau, Bahamas] – Antique Print

[Tourists buying coconuts and fruit from vendor, probably Nassau, Bahamas], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Tourists buying coconuts and fruit from vendor, probably Nassau, Bahamas], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Tourists buying coconuts and fruit from vendor, probably Nassau, Bahamas]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Tourists buying coconuts and fruit from vendor, probably Nassau, Bahamas]

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Tourists crowd around a fruit seller in what the cataloger believes is Nassau, the Bahamian port that became a winter destination for American visitors in the early twentieth century. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sold hand-colored and black-and-white views of places across the country and abroad, issued many such scenes of travelers buying fresh coconuts and tropical fruit from roadside vendors. The title was devised by the cataloger rather than taken from a caption, so the exact location is an informed guess. Its glass negative dates from roughly 1900 to 1915, a period when steamship lines were promoting the islands to northern tourists.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-31497. Title devised by cataloger. M-2" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 031057. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsFood vendors. Tourists. Eating & drinking.Bahamas--Nassau.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 725 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76835

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