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[Aerial view of La Ceiba, Honduras] – Historic Photograph Print

[Aerial view of La Ceiba, Honduras], [between 1940 and 1945?] — historic photograph
[Aerial view of La Ceiba, Honduras], [between 1940 and 1945?]. 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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A window into the past: [Aerial view of La Ceiba, Honduras], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Aerial view of La Ceiba, Honduras]

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Aerial views of Central American port towns from the early 1940s are uncommon, and this one shows La Ceiba on the north coast of Honduras, a town in the Atlántida department that grew around banana cultivation and its shipping. The record dates the print to roughly 1940 to 1945, a period when the United States paid close attention to Honduran ports and plantation economies, and the bird's-eye angle lets viewers read how the town's street grid met the surrounding farmland and coastline. The Library of Congress holds it in the Prints and Photographs Division, where it serves as a document of the town's layout during those years.

Created / published[between 1940 and 1945?]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1940-1950.Aerial photographs 1940-1950.
SubjectsLa Ceiba (Atlántida, Honduras)--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,278 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181934

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